{"id":206762,"date":"2017-04-12T11:28:40","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T09:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=206762"},"modified":"2017-04-12T11:30:26","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T09:30:26","slug":"using-graphene-to-make-flexible-oled-screens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/206762-using-graphene-to-make-flexible-oled-screens.html","title":{"rendered":"Using graphene to make flexible OLED screens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A team of South Korean researchers has\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.koreaherald.com\/view.php?ud=20170411000715\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>developed<\/strong><\/a> the first OLED panel which uses graphene electrodes.<\/p>\n<p>The graphene-based OLED panel is flexible and resistant to chipping, making it a suitable material for thin smartphone screens.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, most OLED displays use transparent electrodes made of indium tin oxide &#8211; which is relatively fragile.<\/p>\n<p>The properties of graphene OLED displays mean they could potentially be sewn into clothing or implemented in next-generation wearables and smartphones.<\/p>\n<p>The team plans to help commercialise flexible and foldable graphene OLED panels in the next five years.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/205672-graphene-sieve-turns-seawater-into-drinking-water.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Graphene sieve turns seawater into drinking water<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of South Korean researchers has developed the first OLED panel which uses graphene electrodes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":75561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31750],"tags":[42532,31102,8109],"class_list":["post-206762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-foldable-displays","tag-graphene","tag-oled"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206762"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206816,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206762\/revisions\/206816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}