In order to create advanced technologies researchers are turning to nanomaterials: materials manipulated on the scale of atoms or molecules that exhibit unique properties. Anne S. Meyer, an associate professor of biology at the University of Rochester, and her colleagues at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, in a paper published in the journal ChemOpen, describe a way to overcome this barrier. The researchers outline their method to produce graphene materials using a novel technique: mixing oxidized graphite with bacteria. Their method is a more cost-efficient, time-saving, and environmentally friendly way of producing graphene materials versus those produced chemically. "For real applications you need large amounts," Meyer says. "Producing these bulk amounts is challenging and typically results in graphene that is thicker and less pure. This is where our work came in".
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机译：为了创建先进的技术，研究人员正在转向纳米材料：在出现独特性质的原子或分子上操纵的材料。 罗切斯特大学生物学副教授Anne S. Meyer和荷兰代表德尔特理工大学的同事，在京培发表的论文中，描述了一种克服这级障碍的方法。 研究人员概述了他们使用新技术生产石墨烯材料的方法：用细菌混合氧化石墨。 它们的方法是一种更具成本效益，节省的节省时间和环保方式，可以生产石墨烯材料与化学生产的那些。 “对于你需要大量的真实应用，”Meyer说。 “生产这些批量量是挑战性，通常导致石墨烯更厚，更不纯净。这是我们工作进入的地方”。
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