Graphene might a 21st century’s philosopher’s stone: flexible, strong, fashionable material that’s also conductive; the goal is fabric that can support technology without being clunky about it. Scientists at Beijing’s Tsinghua University have come up with the idea of combining silk with graphene—conductive carbon one-atom thick -- by feeding it to silkworms. It works, … [Read more...]
Researchers Say They Can Embed Graphene Electrodes in Fabric
A team of researchers say they have developed a technique to weave conductive graphene threads into fabric, using those threads as flexible electrodes. Fully flexible wiring embedded into fabrics, of course, would be an immense breakthrough. Graphene is material that consists of a single-atom thickness of carbon. It has many interesting characteristics, among them … [Read more...]
Can Flexible Graphene Supercapacitors Power Wearables?
We've written about graphene before: single-atom layers of carbon arranged in a lattice. Graphene has interesting and still-unexplored properties, and one group of scientists think it can be useful as a supercapacitor (which we've also written about before). A flexible supercapacitor would be very interesting indeed for wearables, all the more if it were made out of a stable … [Read more...]
Graphene as a Medium for Printed Wearables
Graphene is a crystalline form of graphite (you, know -- carbon) that's one atom thick. It turns out to be a great conductor, and there are efforts to print flexible graphene circuits onto fabric to create wearable electronics. Britain's Telegraph newspaper reports on efforts at Cambridge University to print graphene circuits. This first video shows a printed piano … [Read more...]