{"id":108150,"date":"2020-06-04T00:03:56","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T07:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/joined-nano-triangles-pave-the-way-to-magnetic-carbon-materials"},"modified":"2020-06-04T00:03:56","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T07:03:56","slug":"joined-nano-triangles-pave-the-way-to-magnetic-carbon-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/joined-nano-triangles-pave-the-way-to-magnetic-carbon-materials","title":{"rendered":"Joined nano-triangles pave the way to magnetic carbon materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/joined-nano-triangles-pave-the-way-to-magnetic-carbon-materials.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Graphene, a two-dimensional honeycomb structure made of carbon atoms with a thickness of only one atom, has numerous outstanding properties. These include enormous mechanical resistance and extraordinary electronic and optical properties. Last year a team led by the Empa researcher Roman Fasel was able to show that it can even be magnetic: they succeeded in synthesizing a molecule in the shape of a bowtie, which has special magnetic properties.<\/p>\n<p>Now, researchers report another breakthrough. Theoretical work from 2007 predicted that graphene could exhibit <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/magnetic+behaviour\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">magnetic behaviour<\/a> if it were cut into tiny triangles. Over the last three years, several teams, including the Empa team, have succeeded in producing the so-called triangulenes, consisting of only a few dozen <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/carbon+atoms\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">carbon atoms<\/a>, by chemical synthesis under ultra-high vacuum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graphene, a two-dimensional honeycomb structure made of carbon atoms with a thickness of only one atom, has numerous outstanding properties. These include enormous mechanical resistance and extraordinary electronic and optical properties. Last year a team led by the Empa researcher Roman Fasel was able to show that it can even be magnetic: they succeeded in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,4,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108150","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}