3ders.org - TU Delft researchers using 3D printed bacteria to make graphene-like materials according to : 3ders

Mar 21, 2017 | By BenedictResearchers at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands are using 3D printed bacteria to create bespoke, graphene-like materials. The TU Delft researchers' bacteria 3D printing systemGraphene is a thin layer of pure carbon atoms, and is both the lightest material and strongest compound known to man. "The more you reduce [graphene oxide], the closer it is to graphene," said Dr Anne Meyer, a bionanoscience researcher at TU Delft. They 3D printed this cocktail onto a dish containing calcium ions, and these calcium ions make the gel solidify upon contact. They say that bacteria 3D printed in precise lines can 'pull' oxygen atoms off graphene oxide, turning it into a material that is more like graphene.




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3D-printed bacteria could make bespoke graphene-like materials

"The more you reduce [graphene oxide], the closer it is to graphene," she says. Science Picture Co/GettyHow do you make a bespoke material with graphene-like properties? They are already trying to use bacteria to turn silica into silicon and iron oxide into iron in replica lunar soil. Future space factories, says Meyer, might well be stocked with 3D printers and staffed by bacteria. By modifying a normal 3D printer, Meyer and her colleagues showed that it is possible to print bacteria onto a surface in precise lines just 1 millimetre wide.


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