{"id":976,"date":"2016-03-03T19:44:35","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T19:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/?p=976"},"modified":"2020-05-13T16:31:07","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T16:31:07","slug":"3d-printed-graphene-aerogel-new-feather-light-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/3d-printed-graphene-aerogel-new-feather-light-material\/","title":{"rendered":"3D-Printed Graphene Aerogel Is a New Feather-Light Material"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from State University of New York at Buffalo and Kansas State University have successfully 3D-printed graphene aerogel.<\/p>\n<p>The material layers up a graphene paste by utilizing 3D printing, ultimately creating complex structures capable of being turned into aerogel.<\/p>\n<p>In order to do that, the team adheres to the following process:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Mix graphene oxide with water to create a paste<\/li>\n<li>The paste is then printed onto a solid platform at -13 degrees Fahrenheit, where it becomes solid<\/li>\n<li>After some time passes, complex structures can be created<\/li>\n<li>The water content is removed from the component after being quenched in liquid nitrogen and \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 meticulously freeze dried<\/li>\n<li>Finally, the component is heated to remove excess oxygen<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>And just like that, you have 3D-printed graphene aerogel and all of the good conductivity, extremely low density, and high compressibility that comes with it.<\/p>\n<p>Not only is it almost effortless to craft 3D-printed graphene aerogel into complex shapes, the material only weighs 0.03 pounds per cubic foot!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RBJlsrN9Qa0\" width=\"680\" height=\"383\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from State University of New York at Buffalo and Kansas State University have successfully 3D-printed graphene aerogel. The material layers up a graphene paste by utilizing 3D printing, ultimately creating complex structures capable of being turned into aerogel. In order to do that, the team adheres to the following process: Mix graphene oxide with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56],"tags":[516,515],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=976"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3528,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions\/3528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}