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Finding Genius Podcast

Dong Lin, Ph.D- Kansas State University- 3D Printing Graphene Aerogel

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2018

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Dong Lin, Ph.D., is a researcher at Kansas State University who's exploring new ways of creating graphene--one of the strongest materials in the known universe that's flexible, lightweight, cheap to make, and that carries a wide range of potential uses. By using a cold substrate and 3D printing technology, Lin and his team are creating a graphene aerogel that's almost as light as air, in fact, it's composed of 99.8% air, yet remains as strong as steel. 


Lin is partnering with a professor of chemistry at Kansas State to tackle what he sees as a major application of this graphene aerogel: energy in the form of higher-capacity, more efficient sodium ion batteries. This is important because improving battery performance could ultimately lead to lower energy consumption worldwide. 



To reach out with questions about Lin's ongoing research, feel free to send him an email at dongl@ksu.edu. 

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0:00.0

Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.

0:07.0

Future Technologies is to transform our lives for better or worse or the focus of this podcast.

0:13.0

Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used.

0:17.0

Or just around the corner, for Bitcoin to artificial intelligence,

0:21.0

3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more.

0:25.0

Hello this is Richard Jacob with Future Tech Podcast.

0:30.0

My guest today is Dong Lynn and we're talking about some research work he's doing making a

0:34.9

Gaffeine aerogel. That's 99.8% air but it's a stronger steel so it's very interesting material. So,

0:42.1

Don't tell me you know hello how you doing and thanks

0:45.2

for coming first of all uh huh yeah well tell me a little bit about the research what

0:51.7

what university are you at and how did you get involved in this

0:54.6

research? Okay. So I'm in Kansas State University working as a

0:59.8

organization professor. For my research, do 3D friendly of quatine aerog.

1:05.0

So basically, with your lap new technology to do 3D printing of quatting.

1:11.0

So what we do is we do is like this we disperse the graduating

1:16.3

oxide into the d i water we have the

1:19.2

uh... graphic water suspension and then we do in-ghed printing, we eject the suspension onto a

1:26.4

cold plate.

1:27.4

So the temperature on the cold plate is adjustable from negative 70 degree C to 0 degree C.

1:35.0

And then so basically we do 3 different of ice, right?

1:38.0

So we print the ice with graphic water.

1:41.0

And then we do freeze dry, we remove the ice. We leave the

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