{"id":741742,"date":"2013-03-13T23:59:44","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T03:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=373515"},"modified":"2013-03-13T23:59:44","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T03:59:44","slug":"why-graphene-speakers-could-become-the-audio-industrys-new-gold-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/741742","title":{"rendered":"Why graphene speakers could become the audio industry\u2019s new gold standard"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/13\/graphene-audio-speaker-performance-373515\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"650\" height=\"700\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/maxell-speaker.jpg?w=650&#038;h=700&#038;crop=1&#038;resize=650%2C700\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Graphene Audio Speaker\" title=\"Maxell Audio Speak Ad\" \/><\/a><\/center>We've heard a lot about graphene being a \"wonder material\" that could be used for <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/01\/31\/nokia-graphene-1-35-billion-dollar-grant-313029\/\">smartphone casings<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/06\/graphene-antenna-research-terabit-361954\/\">antennas<\/a>, but now it seems that some engineers have found a way to incorporate it into audio speakers and headphones as well. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/view\/512496\/first-graphene-audio-speaker-easily-outperforms-traditional-designs\/\"><em>Technology Review<\/em> reports<\/a> that University of California Berkeley researchers\u00a0Qin Zhou and Alex Zettl have found that graphene is the perfect material for constructing speaker\u00a0diaphragms, which typically work best when made from a thin material that reduces the need to conduct expensive and energy-consuming \"damping engineering.\"<br \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/13\/graphene-audio-speaker-performance-373515\/?utm_source=more-link&utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading...<\/em><\/a><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/SbheCYApbGM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve heard a lot about graphene being a &#8220;wonder material&#8221; that could be used for smartphone casings and antennas, but now it seems that some engineers have found a way to incorporate it into audio speakers and headphones as well. Technology Review reports that University of California Berkeley researchers\u00a0Qin Zhou and Alex Zettl have found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4809,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-741742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-36XA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4809"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}