{"id":110901,"date":"2020-08-05T10:06:52","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T17:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/unusual-nanoparticles-could-benefit-the-quest-to-build-a-quantum-computer"},"modified":"2020-08-05T10:06:52","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T17:06:52","slug":"unusual-nanoparticles-could-benefit-the-quest-to-build-a-quantum-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/unusual-nanoparticles-could-benefit-the-quest-to-build-a-quantum-computer","title":{"rendered":"Unusual nanoparticles could benefit the quest to build a quantum computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/unusual-nanoparticles-could-benefit-the-quest-to-build-a-quantum-computer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Imagine tiny crystals that \u201cblink\u201d like fireflies and can convert carbon dioxide, a key cause of climate change, into fuels.<\/p>\n<p>A Rutgers-led team has created ultra-small <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/titanium\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">titanium<\/a> dioxide crystals that exhibit unusual \u201cblinking\u201d behavior and may help to produce methane and other fuels, according to a study in the journal <i>Angewandte Chemie<\/i>. The crystals, also known as nanoparticles, stay charged for a long time and could benefit efforts to develop quantum computers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur findings are quite important and intriguing in a number of ways, and more research is needed to understand how these exotic crystals work and to fulfill their potential,\u201d said senior author Tewodros (Teddy) Asefa, a professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology in the School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. He\u2019s also a professor in the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering in the School of Engineering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine tiny crystals that \u201cblink\u201d like fireflies and can convert carbon dioxide, a key cause of climate change, into fuels. A Rutgers-led team has created ultra-small titanium dioxide crystals that exhibit unusual \u201cblinking\u201d behavior and may help to produce methane and other fuels, according to a study in the journal Angewandte Chemie. The crystals, also [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19,493,1523,38,4,1617,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-chemistry","category-climatology","category-computing","category-engineering","category-nanotechnology","category-quantum-physics","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110901","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=110901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}