{"id":34106,"date":"2017-02-03T22:04:49","date_gmt":"2017-02-04T06:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/scientists-have-turned-cooking-oil-into-a-material-200-times-stronger-than-steel"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:51:49","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:51:49","slug":"scientists-have-turned-cooking-oil-into-a-material-200-times-stronger-than-steel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/scientists-have-turned-cooking-oil-into-a-material-200-times-stronger-than-steel","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Have Turned Cooking Oil Into a Material 200 Times Stronger Than Steel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-have-turned-cooking-oil-into-a-material-200-times-stronger-than-steel.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Graphene cooking oil?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In Brief <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Researchers have discovered a way to make soybean oil into the super-strong material graphene. The material has a wide variety of potential uses and can revolutionize electronics.<\/li>\n<li>The material could be used to make cell phone batteries last 25 percent longer, make more effective solar cells, and even filter fuel out of air.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Researchers have found a way to turn cheap, everyday cooking oil into the wonder material graphene \u2013 a technique that could greatly reduce the cost of making the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/graphene-s-more-incredible-than-we-thought-can-handle-1-000-times-more-current-than-regular-material\">much-touted nanomaterial.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Graphene is a single sheet of carbon atoms with incredible properties \u2013 it\u2019s 200 times stronger than steel, harder than diamond, and incredibly flexible. Under certain conditions, it can even be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/graphene-s-superconductive-power-has-finally-been-unlocked-and-it-s-crazier-than-we-expected\">turned into a superconductor<\/a> that carries electricity with zero resistance.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/scientists-have-turned-cooking-oil-into-a-material-200-times-stronger-than-steel\/\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/scientists-have-turned-cooking-oil-into...han-steel\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graphene cooking oil? In Brief Researchers have discovered a way to make soybean oil into the super-strong material graphene. The material has a wide variety of potential uses and can revolutionize electronics. The material could be used to make cell phone batteries last 25 percent longer, make more effective solar cells, and even filter fuel [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,4,48,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34106","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=34106"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58890,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34106\/revisions\/58890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}