{"id":88401,"date":"2019-03-05T12:22:22","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T20:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/first-scalable-graphene-yarns-for-wearable-textiles-produced"},"modified":"2019-03-05T12:22:22","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T20:22:22","slug":"first-scalable-graphene-yarns-for-wearable-textiles-produced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/first-scalable-graphene-yarns-for-wearable-textiles-produced","title":{"rendered":"First scalable graphene yarns for wearable textiles produced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-scalable-graphene-yarns-for-wearable-textiles-produced2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers led by Dr. Nazmul Karim and Prof Sir Kostya Novoselov at The University of Manchester have developed a method to produce scalable graphene-based yarn.<\/p>\n<p>Multi-functional wearable e-textiles have been a focus of much attention due to their great potential for healthcare, sportswear, fitness and aerospace applications.<\/p>\n<p>Graphene has been considered a potentially good material for these types of applications due to its high conductivity, and flexibility. Every atom in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/graphene\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">graphene<\/a> is exposed to its environment allowing it to sense changes in its surroundings, making it an ideal material for sensors.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-03-scalable-graphene-yarns-wearable-textiles.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019&#45;03-scalable-graphene-yarns-wearable-textiles.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers led by Dr. Nazmul Karim and Prof Sir Kostya Novoselov at The University of Manchester have developed a method to produce scalable graphene-based yarn. Multi-functional wearable e-textiles have been a focus of much attention due to their great potential for healthcare, sportswear, fitness and aerospace applications. Graphene has been considered a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88401","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}