{"id":32851,"date":"2016-12-21T19:50:15","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T03:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/electrical-signaling-in-heart-and-nerve-cells-using-graphene"},"modified":"2017-06-04T13:56:45","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:56:45","slug":"electrical-signaling-in-heart-and-nerve-cells-using-graphene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/electrical-signaling-in-heart-and-nerve-cells-using-graphene","title":{"rendered":"Electrical signaling in heart and nerve cells using graphene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/electrical-signaling-in-heart-and-nerve-cells-using-graphene.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nice.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Scientists have enlisted the exotic properties of graphene, a one-atom-thick layer of carbon, to function like the film of an incredibly sensitive camera system in visually mapping tiny electric fields in a liquid. Researchers hope the new method will allow more extensive and precise imaging of the electrical signaling networks in our hearts and brains.<\/p>\n<p>The ability to visually depict the strength and motion of very faint electrical fields could also aid in the development of so-called lab-on-a-chip devices that use very small quantities of fluids on a microchip-like platform to diagnose disease or aid in drug development, for example, or that automate a range of other biological and chemical analyses. The setup could potentially be adapted for sensing or trapping specific chemicals, too, and for studies of light-based electronics (a field known as optoelectronics).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a completely new, innovative idea that graphene could be used as a material to sense electrical fields in a liquid,\u201d said Jason Horng, a co-lead author of a study published Dec. 16 in Nature Communications that details the first demonstration of this graphene-based imaging system.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacedaily.com\/reports\/Electrical_signaling_in_heart_and_nerve_cells_using_graphene_999.html\">http:\/\/www.spacedaily.com\/reports\/Electrical_signaling_in_he...e_999.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nice. Scientists have enlisted the exotic properties of graphene, a one-atom-thick layer of carbon, to function like the film of an incredibly sensitive camera system in visually mapping tiny electric fields in a liquid. Researchers hope the new method will allow more extensive and precise imaging of the electrical signaling networks in our hearts and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,48,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-particle-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32851","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=32851"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65536,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32851\/revisions\/65536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}