--- title: Soundcell Uses Graphene Drums to Spot Superbugs | daily.dev description: Researchers at TU Delft and spinoff SoundCell have developed graphene nanodrums — drumheads made from two graphene sheets stretched over an 8-micrometer cavity... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/soundcell-uses-graphene-drums-to-spot-superbugs-rrd9a8qzt twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Soundcell Uses Graphene Drums to Spot Superbugs | daily.dev og:description: Researchers at TU Delft and spinoff SoundCell have developed graphene nanodrums — drumheads made from two graphene sheets stretched over an 8-micrometer cavity... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/soundcell-uses-graphene-drums-to-spot-superbugs-rrd9a8qzt og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Rrd9A8QzT.png og:image:alt: Soundcell Uses Graphene Drums to Spot Superbugs og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Soundcell Uses Graphene Drums to Spot Superbugs **[IEEE Spectrum](https://daily.dev/sources/ieeespectrum)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Researchers at TU Delft and spinoff SoundCell have developed graphene nanodrums — drumheads made from two graphene sheets stretched over an 8-micrometer cavity — that can identify bacterial species by analyzing the acoustic patterns of their physical movements. A single bacterium placed on the drum vibrates the graphene surface, and those vibrations are captured via laser reflection and converted into time-frequency spectrograms. Two machine learning models trained on spectrograms from E. coli, Staphylococcus aureus, and Klebsiella pneumoniae achieved ~87–88% classification accuracy. Beyond species identification, the technology can detect antibiotic resistance in as little as one hour — far faster than conventional multi-day lab tests. SoundCell has already deployed a compact version of the device at two hospitals in the Netherlands for clinical validation. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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