{"id":30525,"date":"2016-09-26T12:48:22","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T19:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/graphene-nanoribbons-show-promise-for-healing-spinal-injuries"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:25:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:25:39","slug":"graphene-nanoribbons-show-promise-for-healing-spinal-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/graphene-nanoribbons-show-promise-for-healing-spinal-injuries","title":{"rendered":"Graphene nanoribbons show promise for healing spinal injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/graphene-nanoribbons-show-promise-for-healing-spinal-injuries.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The combination of graphene nanoribbons made with a process developed at Rice University and a common polymer could someday be of critical importance to healing damaged spinal cords in people, according to Rice chemist James Tour.<\/p>\n<p>The Tour lab has spent a decade working with graphene nanoribbons, starting with the discovery of a chemical process to \u201cunzip\u201d them from multiwalled carbon nanotubes, as revealed in a Nature paper in 2009. Since then, the researchers have used them to enhance materials for the likes of deicers for airplane wings, better batteries and less-permeable containers for natural gas storage.<\/p>\n<p>Now their work to develop nanoribbons for medical applications has resulted in a material dubbed Texas-PEG that may help knit damaged or even severed spinal cords.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2016\/09\/160920101607.htm\">https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2016\/09\/160920101607.htm<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The combination of graphene nanoribbons made with a process developed at Rice University and a common polymer could someday be of critical importance to healing damaged spinal cords in people, according to Rice chemist James Tour. The Tour lab has spent a decade working with graphene nanoribbons, starting with the discovery of a chemical process [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-nanotechnology","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30525","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30525"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60271,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30525\/revisions\/60271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}