{"id":105180,"date":"2020-04-11T17:43:26","date_gmt":"2020-04-12T00:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/worlds-most-complex-microparticle-a-synthetic-that-outdoes-natures-intricacy-update"},"modified":"2020-04-11T17:43:26","modified_gmt":"2020-04-12T00:43:26","slug":"worlds-most-complex-microparticle-a-synthetic-that-outdoes-natures-intricacy-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/worlds-most-complex-microparticle-a-synthetic-that-outdoes-natures-intricacy-update","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s most complex microparticle: A synthetic that outdoes nature\u2019s intricacy (Update)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/worlds-most-complex-microparticle-a-synthetic-that-outdoes-natures-intricacy-update2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Synthetic microparticles more intricate than some of the most complicated ones found in nature have been produced by a University of Michigan-led international team. They also investigated how that intricacy arises and devised a way to measure it.<\/p>\n<p>The findings pave the way for more stable fluid-and-particle mixes, such as paints, and new ways to twist light\u2014a prerequisite for holographic projectors.<\/p>\n<p>The particles are composed of twisted spikes arranged into a ball a few microns, or millionths of a meter, across.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synthetic microparticles more intricate than some of the most complicated ones found in nature have been produced by a University of Michigan-led international team. They also investigated how that intricacy arises and devised a way to measure it. The findings pave the way for more stable fluid-and-particle mixes, such as paints, and new ways to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":377,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105180","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\/377"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}