{"id":968,"date":"2019-05-14T10:53:35","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T14:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nanobiolab-draft\/?page_id=968"},"modified":"2021-01-26T19:01:46","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T00:01:46","slug":"nanocomposites","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nanobiolab\/nanocomposites\/","title":{"rendered":"Nanocomposites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The physical and optical properties of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) offer unique opportunities within the research areas of imaging and sensing. We are developing composite microfibers to immobilize brightly fluorescent SWCNTs within flexible and porous textiles. The microfibrous materials are used in the construction of <em>smart bandages<\/em> that can detect the presence of infections.&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1612 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1507\/Smart-Bandages.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"546\" height=\"535\">Increasing the thermal stability of SWCNTs is desirable in high-temperature sensing applications. We are examining the manner in which oligonucleotide wrapping of SWCNTs can significantly increase their thermal stability by several hundred degrees Celsius.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1127\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1507\/TGA_CNT.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1350\" height=\"516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nanobiolab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1507\/TGA_CNT.png 1350w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nanobiolab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1507\/TGA_CNT-300x115.png 300w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nanobiolab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1507\/TGA_CNT-768x294.png 768w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nanobiolab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1507\/TGA_CNT-1024x391.png 1024w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nanobiolab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1507\/TGA_CNT-364x139.png 364w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nanobiolab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1507\/TGA_CNT-500x191.png 500w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nanobiolab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1507\/TGA_CNT-1000x382.png 1000w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nanobiolab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1507\/TGA_CNT-1280x489.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The physical and optical properties of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) offer unique opportunities within the research areas of imaging and sensing. We are developing composite microfibers to immobilize brightly fluorescent SWCNTs within flexible and porous textiles. The microfibrous materials are used in the construction of smart bandages that can detect the presence of infections.&nbsp; Increasing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1325,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-968","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nanobiolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nanobiolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nanobiolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nanobiolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nanobiolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=968"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nanobiolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1615,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nanobiolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/968\/revisions\/1615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nanobiolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}