{"id":100388,"date":"2020-01-02T04:43:37","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T12:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/laser-heated-nanowires-produce-micro-scale-nuclear-fusion"},"modified":"2020-01-02T04:43:37","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T12:43:37","slug":"laser-heated-nanowires-produce-micro-scale-nuclear-fusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/laser-heated-nanowires-produce-micro-scale-nuclear-fusion","title":{"rendered":"Laser-heated nanowires produce micro-scale nuclear fusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/laser-heated-nanowires-produce-micro-scale-nuclear-fusion.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nuclear fusion, the process that powers our sun, happens when nuclear reactions between light elements produce heavier ones. It\u2019s also happening \u2014 at a smaller scale \u2014 in a Colorado State University laboratory.<\/p>\n<p>Using a compact but powerful laser to heat arrays of ordered nanowires, CSU scientists and collaborators have demonstrated micro-scale nuclear fusion in the lab. They have achieved record-setting efficiency for the generation of neutrons \u2014 chargeless sub-atomic particles resulting from the fusion process.<\/p>\n<p>Their work is detailed in a paper published in Nature Communications (\u201cMicro-scale fusion in dense relativistic nanowire array plasmas\u201d), and is led by Jorge Rocca, University Distinguished Professor in electrical and computer engineering and physics. The paper\u2019s first author is Alden Curtis, a CSU graduate student.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nuclear fusion, the process that powers our sun, happens when nuclear reactions between light elements produce heavier ones. It\u2019s also happening \u2014 at a smaller scale \u2014 in a Colorado State University laboratory. Using a compact but powerful laser to heat arrays of ordered nanowires, CSU scientists and collaborators have demonstrated micro-scale nuclear fusion in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,873,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-nuclear-energy","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}