{"id":30537,"date":"2016-09-26T19:32:41","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T02:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/mit-powering-up-graphene-implants-without-frying-cells-for-the-next-generation-of-implants"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:25:34","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:25:34","slug":"mit-powering-up-graphene-implants-without-frying-cells-for-the-next-generation-of-implants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/mit-powering-up-graphene-implants-without-frying-cells-for-the-next-generation-of-implants","title":{"rendered":"MIT: Powering up graphene implants without frying cells ~ For the Next Generation of Implants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mit-powering-up-graphene-implants-without-frying-cells-for-the-next-generation-of-implants.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This computational illustration shows a graphene network structure below a layer of water.<\/p>\n<p><center>Image: Zhao Qin<\/center><\/p>\n<p>New analysis finds way to safely conduct heat from graphene to biological tissues.<\/p>\n<p>In the future, our health may be monitored and maintained by tiny sensors and drug dispensers, deployed within the body and made from graphene \u2014 one of the strongest, lightest materials in the world. Graphene is composed of a single sheet of carbon atoms, linked together like razor-thin chicken wire, and its properties may be tuned in countless ways, making it a versatile material for tiny, next-generation implants.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/genesisnanotech.wordpress.com\/2016\/09\/26\/mit-powering-up-graphene-implants-without-frying-cells-for-the-next-generation-of-implants\/\">https:\/\/genesisnanotech.wordpress.com\/2016\/09\/26\/mit-powerin...-implants\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This computational illustration shows a graphene network structure below a layer of water. Image: Zhao Qin New analysis finds way to safely conduct heat from graphene to biological tissues. In the future, our health may be monitored and maintained by tiny sensors and drug dispensers, deployed within the body and made from graphene \u2014 one [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,4,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30537","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=30537"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60266,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30537\/revisions\/60266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}