{"id":77900,"date":"2018-04-18T05:22:50","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T12:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/scalable-manufacturing-process-spools-out-strips-of-graphene-for-use-in-ultrathin-membranes"},"modified":"2018-04-18T05:22:50","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T12:22:50","slug":"scalable-manufacturing-process-spools-out-strips-of-graphene-for-use-in-ultrathin-membranes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/scalable-manufacturing-process-spools-out-strips-of-graphene-for-use-in-ultrathin-membranes","title":{"rendered":"Scalable manufacturing process spools out strips of graphene for use in ultrathin membranes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qL4KbLmUTvU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>MIT engineers have developed a continuous manufacturing process that produces long strips of high-quality graphene.<\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s results are the first demonstration of an industrial, scalable method for manufacturing high-quality <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/graphene\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">graphene<\/a> that is tailored for use in membranes that filter a variety of molecules, including salts, larger ions, proteins, or nanoparticles. Such membranes should be useful for desalination, biological separation, and other applications.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor several years, researchers have thought of graphene as a potential route to ultrathin membranes,\u201d says John Hart, associate professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity at MIT. \u201cWe believe this is the first study that has tailored the manufacturing of graphene toward membrane applications, which require the graphene to be seamless, cover the substrate fully, and be of high quality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-04-scalable-spools-graphene-ultrathin-membranes.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;04-scalable-spools-graphene-u...ranes.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT engineers have developed a continuous manufacturing process that produces long strips of high-quality graphene. The team\u2019s results are the first demonstration of an industrial, scalable method for manufacturing high-quality graphene that is tailored for use in membranes that filter a variety of molecules, including salts, larger ions, proteins, or nanoparticles. Such membranes should be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,38,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-engineering","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77900","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\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}