{"id":107236,"date":"2020-05-18T04:46:14","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T11:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/two-studies-just-revealed-how-twisted-graphene-gets-even-weirder-at-a-magic-angle"},"modified":"2020-05-18T04:46:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T11:46:14","slug":"two-studies-just-revealed-how-twisted-graphene-gets-even-weirder-at-a-magic-angle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/two-studies-just-revealed-how-twisted-graphene-gets-even-weirder-at-a-magic-angle","title":{"rendered":"Two Studies Just Revealed How Twisted Graphene Gets Even Weirder at a \u2018Magic Angle\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/two-studies-just-revealed-how-twisted-graphene-gets-even-weirder-at-a-magic-angle2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/graphene\">Graphene<\/a> has already proven itself to be a weird and wonderful material in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-cram-light-into-smallest-one-atom-space-possible-with-graphene\">many different ways<\/a>, but its properties get even more unusual and exotic when it\u2019s twisted \u2013 and two new studies have given scientists a much closer look at this intriguing phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>When two sheets of graphene are put together at slightly different angles, the resulting material becomes either very effective at conducting electricity, or very effective at blocking it. It\u2019s known as \u2018magic-angle\u2019 twisted graphene, and knowing more about how and why this happens could lead to advances in high-temperature superconductors and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/quantum-computers\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"quantum computing\">quantum computing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now for the first time, scientists have mapped out a twisted graphene structure in its entirety, and at a very high resolution. They\u2019ve also been able to get \u2018graphene twistronics\u2019 working with four layers of graphene as well as just two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graphene has already proven itself to be a weird and wonderful material in many different ways, but its properties get even more unusual and exotic when it\u2019s twisted \u2013 and two new studies have given scientists a much closer look at this intriguing phenomenon. When two sheets of graphene are put together at slightly different [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107236","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}