{"id":85011,"date":"2018-11-22T14:24:16","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T22:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/when-graphene-and-seaweed-combine-something-amazing-happens"},"modified":"2018-11-22T14:24:16","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T22:24:16","slug":"when-graphene-and-seaweed-combine-something-amazing-happens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/when-graphene-and-seaweed-combine-something-amazing-happens","title":{"rendered":"When graphene and seaweed combine, something amazing happens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/when-graphene-and-seaweed-combine-something-amazing-happens.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have combined a form of graphene with a seaweed-derived substance to create a whole new smart material with multiple uses.<\/p>\n<p>A number of biomedical applications have begun to adopt hydrogel materials made from alginate, a natural material derived from seaweed. Yet in their current form, these hydrogels are incredibly fragile, meaning they\u2019re not very useful in the long term.<\/p>\n<p>However, researchers at Brown University have found a way to drastically improve their strength \u2013 in addition to making them more intricate in shape \u2013 using graphene oxide (GO) and 3D printing.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.siliconrepublic.com\/machines\/graphene-and-seaweed-3d-printing\">https:\/\/www.siliconrepublic.com\/machines\/graphene-and-seaweed-3d-printing<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have combined a form of graphene with a seaweed-derived substance to create a whole new smart material with multiple uses. A number of biomedical applications have begun to adopt hydrogel materials made from alginate, a natural material derived from seaweed. Yet in their current form, these hydrogels are incredibly fragile, meaning they\u2019re not very [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85011","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}