{"id":108244,"date":"2020-06-06T01:45:15","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T08:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/for-the-first-time-ever-scientists-have-created-hexagonal-salt"},"modified":"2020-06-06T01:45:15","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T08:45:15","slug":"for-the-first-time-ever-scientists-have-created-hexagonal-salt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/for-the-first-time-ever-scientists-have-created-hexagonal-salt","title":{"rendered":"For The First Time Ever, Scientists Have Created Hexagonal Salt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/for-the-first-time-ever-scientists-have-created-hexagonal-salt2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While it probably won\u2019t make it to your dining table, a new scientific achievement might be able to help in everything from radar equipment to electric cars: scientists have been able to form salt, aka <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sodium_chloride\">sodium chloride<\/a> (NaCl), in a hexagonal shape.<\/p>\n<p>This is work done at the smallest of scales, with researchers able to get a thin film of hexagonal salt to form on top of a layer of diamond, due to the chemical interaction of both film and diamond substrate \u2013 something the team actually predicted would happen in advance through simulations.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the latest in a series of discoveries where scientists have been able to synthesise <a href=\"https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.1088\/1367-2630\/16\/9\/095004\">2D materials<\/a> with unusual crystal structures, and it\u2019s partly this self-imposed restriction to two dimensions that is enabling new and exotic structures to be formed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While it probably won\u2019t make it to your dining table, a new scientific achievement might be able to help in everything from radar equipment to electric cars: scientists have been able to form salt, aka sodium chloride (NaCl), in a hexagonal shape. This is work done at the smallest of scales, with researchers able to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108244","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}