{"id":27736,"date":"2016-07-11T21:02:22","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T04:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/germs-add-ripples-to-make-groovy-graphene"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:07:51","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:07:51","slug":"germs-add-ripples-to-make-groovy-graphene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/germs-add-ripples-to-make-groovy-graphene","title":{"rendered":"Germs add ripples to make \u2018groovy\u2019 graphene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/germs-add-ripples-to-make-groovy-graphene.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Graphene, a two-dimensional wonder-material composed of a single layer of carbon atoms linked in a hexagonal chicken-wire pattern, has attracted intense interest for its phenomenal ability to conduct electricity. Now University of Illinois at Chicago researchers have used rod-shaped bacteria \u2014 precisely aligned in an electric field, then vacuum-shrunk under a graphene sheet \u2014 to introduce nanoscale ripples in the material, causing it to conduct electrons differently in perpendicular directions.<\/p>\n<p>The resulting material, sort of a graphene nano-corduroy, can be applied to a silicon chip and may add to graphene\u2019s almost limitless potential in electronics and nanotechnology. The finding is reported in the journal <em>ACS Nano<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe current across the graphene wrinkles is less than the current along them,\u201d says Vikas Berry, associate professor and interim head of chemical engineering at UIC, who led the research.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2016\/07\/160711155823.htm\">https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2016\/07\/160711155823.htm<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graphene, a two-dimensional wonder-material composed of a single layer of carbon atoms linked in a hexagonal chicken-wire pattern, has attracted intense interest for its phenomenal ability to conduct electricity. Now University of Illinois at Chicago researchers have used rod-shaped bacteria \u2014 precisely aligned in an electric field, then vacuum-shrunk under a graphene sheet \u2014 to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,38,4,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-engineering","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27736"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61230,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27736\/revisions\/61230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}