{"id":114281,"date":"2020-10-12T21:22:38","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T04:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/stacking-and-twisting-graphene-unlocks-a-rare-form-of-magnetism"},"modified":"2020-10-12T21:22:38","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T04:22:38","slug":"stacking-and-twisting-graphene-unlocks-a-rare-form-of-magnetism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/stacking-and-twisting-graphene-unlocks-a-rare-form-of-magnetism","title":{"rendered":"Stacking and twisting graphene unlocks a rare form of magnetism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/stacking-and-twisting-graphene-unlocks-a-rare-form-of-magnetism2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since the discovery of graphene more than 15 years ago, researchers have been in a global race to unlock its unique properties. Not only is graphene\u2014a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon arranged in a hexagonal lattice\u2014the strongest, thinnest material known to man, it is also an excellent conductor of heat and electricity.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a team of researchers at Columbia University and the University of Washington has discovered that a variety of exotic electronic states, including a rare form of magnetism, can arise in a three-layer <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/graphene\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">graphene<\/a> structure.<\/p>\n<p>The findings appear in an article published Oct. 12 in Nature Physics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the discovery of graphene more than 15 years ago, researchers have been in a global race to unlock its unique properties. Not only is graphene\u2014a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon arranged in a hexagonal lattice\u2014the strongest, thinnest material known to man, it is also an excellent conductor of heat and electricity. Now, a team of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114281","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\/114281","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\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}