{"id":110687,"date":"2020-07-31T17:22:21","date_gmt":"2020-08-01T00:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/non-magnetic-material-made-magnetic-using-electricity-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2020-07-31T17:22:21","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T00:22:21","slug":"non-magnetic-material-made-magnetic-using-electricity-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/non-magnetic-material-made-magnetic-using-electricity-for-the-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Non-magnetic material made magnetic using electricity for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/non-magnetic-material-made-magnetic-using-electricity-for-the-first-time2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have for the first time managed to use electricity to switch on magnetism in a material that\u2019s normally non-magnetic. The find could be a step towards making electronic components out of common materials that might not otherwise be suitable.<\/p>\n<p>Put simply, ferromagnetism \u2013 the strongest form of the phenomenon \u2013 arises in a material when the majority of electrons in its atoms spin in the same direction. For non-magnetic materials, the electrons are usually paired up so that their opposite spins cancel out the magnetic field.<\/p>\n<p>There aren\u2019t many substances that are natively ferromagnetic, but the most common ones are iron, cobalt and nickel, as well as their alloys. That doesn\u2019t give engineers all that much to work with when creating electronic devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have for the first time managed to use electricity to switch on magnetism in a material that\u2019s normally non-magnetic. The find could be a step towards making electronic components out of common materials that might not otherwise be suitable. Put simply, ferromagnetism \u2013 the strongest form of the phenomenon \u2013 arises in a material [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110687","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=110687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}