{"id":539198,"date":"2010-04-22T01:16:51","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T05:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/?p=7310"},"modified":"2010-04-22T01:16:51","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T05:16:51","slug":"is-graphene-pliable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/539198","title":{"rendered":"Is graphene pliable?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news191054841.html\" >more so\u00a0than carbon nanotubes<\/a>. This attribute is key to using the material in electronic devices such as actuators, valves in labs-on-a-chip and electronic paper.<\/p>\n<p>From the link:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Physicists at UC San Diego and Boston University think so. In a paper published in the journal<em> Physical Review B<\/em>, the scientists say the propensity of graphene\u2014a single layer of\u00a0<a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/tags\/carbon+atoms\/\">carbon atoms<\/a> arranged in a\u00a0<a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/tags\/honeycomb+lattice\/\">honeycomb lattice<\/a>\u2014 to stick to itself and form carbon \u201cnanoscrolls\u201d could be controlled electrostatically to form a myriad of new devices.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike carbon nanotubes\u2014cylindrical molecules of pure carbon with novel properties that have become the focus of much of the attention of new application in electronics and materials development\u2014<a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/tags\/carbon\/\">carbon<\/a> nanoscrolls retain open edges and have no caps.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a result, nanoscrolls can change their shape and their inner and outer diameters, while nanotubes cannot,\u201d said Michael Fogler, an associate professor of physics at UCSD and the first author of the paper.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7310\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7310\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7310\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7310\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7310\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7310\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7310\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7310\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7310\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7310\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2464417&#038;post=7310&#038;subd=davidkirkpatrick&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like\u00a0more so\u00a0than carbon nanotubes. This attribute is key to using the material in electronic devices such as actuators, valves in labs-on-a-chip and electronic paper. From the link: Physicists at UC San Diego and Boston University think so. In a paper published in the journal Physical Review B, the scientists say the propensity of graphene\u2014a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4050,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-539198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4050"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}