{"id":1063,"date":"2014-04-20T13:40:50","date_gmt":"2014-04-20T18:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=1063"},"modified":"2014-04-21T11:32:45","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T16:32:45","slug":"generating-graphene-in-the-kitchen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/generating-graphene-in-the-kitchen\/","title":{"rendered":"Generating graphene in the kitchen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1061\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Picture4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1061\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1061\" alt=\"This image, taken with a transmission electron microsope, shows the defect-free sheets of graphene that can be generated from graphite by mixing it in water with an ordinary kitchen blender. Scale bar: 100 nanometres. (Credit: Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures, Trinity College Dublin)\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Picture4.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Picture4.jpg 350w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Picture4-273x300.jpg 273w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1061\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This image, taken with a transmission electron microsope, shows the defect-free sheets of graphene that can be generated from graphite by mixing it in water with an ordinary kitchen blender. Scale bar: 100 nanometres. (Credit: Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures, Trinity College Dublin)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A new study shows that sheets of defect-free graphene can easily be \u2018exfoliated\u2019 from graphite by placing it in water and stirring it up with an ordinary kitchen blender. This allows for sheets of graphene to be produced in large quantities.<\/p>\n<p>Graphene is an atom-thick network of carbon that is strong, nearly transparent, and an excellent conductor of electricity and heat.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nmat\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/full\/nmat3944.html\" target=\"_blank\">Original research paper<\/a><\/span>\u00a0published in the\u00a0journal\u00a0<em>Nature Materials<\/em><i>\u00a0<\/i>on\u00a0<strong>April 20, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcd.ie\/Physics\/1D_Nanostructures\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan N. Coleman<\/a>, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study shows that sheets of defect-free graphene can easily be \u2018exfoliated\u2019 from graphite by placing it in water and stirring it up with an ordinary kitchen blender. This allows for sheets of graphene to be produced in large quantities. Graphene is an atom-thick network of carbon that is strong, nearly transparent, and an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1061,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Picture4.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-h9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1063"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1205,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions\/1205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}