{"id":89904,"date":"2019-04-24T11:05:19","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T18:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/modified-white-graphene-for-eco-friendly-energy"},"modified":"2019-04-24T11:05:19","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T18:05:19","slug":"modified-white-graphene-for-eco-friendly-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/modified-white-graphene-for-eco-friendly-energy","title":{"rendered":"Modified \u2018white graphene\u2019 for eco-friendly energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/modified-white-graphene-for-eco-friendly-energy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists from Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU), together with colleagues from the United States and Germany, have found a way to obtain inexpensive catalysts from hexagonal boron nitride or \u201cwhite graphene.\u201d The technology can be used in the production of environmentally friendly hydrogen fuel.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers have found a new way to functionalize a dielectric, otherwise known as white graphene, i.e. <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/hexagonal+boron+nitride\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">hexagonal boron nitride<\/a> (hBN), without destroying it or changing its properties. Thanks to the new method, the researchers synthesized a polymer nano carpet with strong covalent bond on the samples.<\/p>\n<p>Prof Raul Rodriguez from the TPU Research School of Chemistry &amp; Applied Biomedical Sciences explains:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-04-white-graphene-eco-friendly-energy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU), together with colleagues from the United States and Germany, have found a way to obtain inexpensive catalysts from hexagonal boron nitride or \u201cwhite graphene.\u201d The technology can be used in the production of environmentally friendly hydrogen fuel. The researchers have found a new way to functionalize a dielectric, otherwise [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89904","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=89904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}