{"id":32309,"date":"2016-11-30T10:50:27","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T18:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/nano-materials-start-up-uses-graphene-to-sweeten-loudspeaker-response"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:01:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:01:36","slug":"nano-materials-start-up-uses-graphene-to-sweeten-loudspeaker-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/nano-materials-start-up-uses-graphene-to-sweeten-loudspeaker-response","title":{"rendered":"Nano-materials start-up uses graphene to sweeten loudspeaker response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nano-materials-start-up-uses-graphene-to-sweeten-loudspeaker-response.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Want a louder bass or speakers in general get Quantum.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Ora, a Montreal-based tech start-up, has announced that it has developed the first consumer-ready graphene loudspeaker.<\/p>\n<p>The company believes that graphene holds the ideal properties sought after in loudspeaker diaphragms: stiffness (graphene is stronger than diamond) and lightness (graphene is the thinnest known material, one atom thick).<\/p>\n<p>Building acoustic transducers with these properties allows for the production of smaller, lighter, more energy-efficient loudspeakers, while also improving sound quality. However, the difficulty and expense of mass-producing graphene has presented a roadblock to bringing the material to consumer products.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/eandt.theiet.org\/content\/articles\/2016\/11\/nano-materials-start-up-uses-graphene-to-sweeten-loudspeaker-response\/\">https:\/\/eandt.theiet.org\/content\/articles\/2016\/11\/nano-mater...-response\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want a louder bass or speakers in general get Quantum. Ora, a Montreal-based tech start-up, has announced that it has developed the first consumer-ready graphene loudspeaker. The company believes that graphene holds the ideal properties sought after in loudspeaker diaphragms: stiffness (graphene is stronger than diamond) and lightness (graphene is the thinnest known material, 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":[4,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32309","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=32309"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59614,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32309\/revisions\/59614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}