{"id":82567,"date":"2018-09-14T06:23:29","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T13:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/artificial-retinas-made-of-this-ultra-thin-super-material-could-help-millions-see-again"},"modified":"2018-09-15T12:08:22","modified_gmt":"2018-09-15T19:08:22","slug":"artificial-retinas-made-of-this-ultra-thin-super-material-could-help-millions-see-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/artificial-retinas-made-of-this-ultra-thin-super-material-could-help-millions-see-again","title":{"rendered":"Artificial Retinas Made Of This Ultra-Thin Super Material Could Help Millions See Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/artificial-retinas-made-of-this-ultra-thin-super-material-could-help-millions-see-again.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>TRULY SUPER.<\/strong> There\u2019s a reason researchers call graphene a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/super-materials-are-leading-us-to-a-new-age-in-science\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">super material<\/a>.\u201d Even though it\u2019s just a single layer of carbon atoms thick, it\u2019s super strong, super flexible, and super light. It also conducts electricity, and is biodegradable. Now an international team of researchers has found a way to use the super material: to create artificial retinas.<\/p>\n<p>They presented their work Monday at a meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS).<\/p>\n<p><strong>ARTIFICIAL RETINAS.<\/strong> The retina is the layer of light-sensitive cells at the back of the eye responsible for converting images into impulses that the brain can interpret. And without a functional one, a person simply can\u2019t see.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/artificial-retinas-graphene\/\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/artificial-retinas-graphene\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRULY SUPER. There\u2019s a reason researchers call graphene a \u201csuper material.\u201d Even though it\u2019s just a single layer of carbon atoms thick, it\u2019s super strong, super flexible, and super light. It also conducts electricity, and is biodegradable. Now an international team of researchers has found a way to use the super material: to create artificial [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82567","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82628,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82567\/revisions\/82628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}