{"id":93587,"date":"2019-07-14T06:22:52","date_gmt":"2019-07-14T13:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/bacteria-could-help-mass-produce-wonder-material-graphene-at-scale"},"modified":"2019-07-14T06:22:52","modified_gmt":"2019-07-14T13:22:52","slug":"bacteria-could-help-mass-produce-wonder-material-graphene-at-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/bacteria-could-help-mass-produce-wonder-material-graphene-at-scale","title":{"rendered":"Bacteria Could Help Mass-Produce Wonder Material Graphene At Scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bacteria-could-help-mass-produce-wonder-material-graphene-at-scale.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no doubting that graphene, a single layer of graphite with the atoms arranged in a honeycomb hexagonal pattern, is one of science\u2019s most versatile new materials. Capable of doing everything from <a href='https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/cool-tech\/whisky-filtering-graphene\/'>filtering the color out of whisky<\/a> to <a href='https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/cool-tech\/graphene-body-armor-diamonds\/'>creating body armor that\u2019s stronger than diamonds<\/a>, graphene exhibits some truly unique qualities. However, while some mainstream uses of graphene have emerged, its use remains limited due to the challenge of producing it at scale. The most common way to make graphene still involves using sticky tape to strip a layer of atoms off ordinary graphite.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s something that researchers from the University of Rochester and the Netherlands\u2019 Delft University of Technology have been working to change. They\u2019ve figured out a way to mass produce graphene by mixing oxidized graphite with bacteria. Their method is cost-efficient, time-efficient, and sustainable \u2014 and may just make graphene a whole lot more available in the process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn our research, we have used bacteria to produce graphene materials on a bulk scale, and we showed that our material is conductive, and both thinner and able to be stored longer than chemically produced graphene materials,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sas.rochester.edu\/bio\/people\/faculty\/meyer_anne\/index.html\">Anne Meyer<\/a>, professor of biology at the University of Rochester, told Digital Trends. \u201cThese properties demonstrate that our bacterial graphene would be well suited for a variety of applications, such as electrical ink or lightweight biosensors. Our approach is also incredibly simple and environmentally friendly compared to chemical approaches. All we have to do is mix our bacteria with the graphene precursor material, and leave them sitting on the benchtop overnight.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s no doubting that graphene, a single layer of graphite with the atoms arranged in a honeycomb hexagonal pattern, is one of science\u2019s most versatile new materials. Capable of doing everything from filtering the color out of whisky to creating body armor that\u2019s stronger than diamonds, graphene exhibits some truly unique qualities. However, while some [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93587","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=93587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}