{"id":118327,"date":"2021-01-11T15:22:37","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T23:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/researchers-develop-new-one-step-process-for-creating-self-assembled-metamaterials"},"modified":"2021-01-11T15:22:37","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T23:22:37","slug":"researchers-develop-new-one-step-process-for-creating-self-assembled-metamaterials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/researchers-develop-new-one-step-process-for-creating-self-assembled-metamaterials","title":{"rendered":"Researchers develop new one-step process for creating self-assembled metamaterials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-develop-new-one-step-process-for-creating-self-assembled-metamaterials.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team led by University of Minnesota Twin Cities researchers has discovered a groundbreaking one-step process for creating materials with unique properties, called metamaterials. Their results show the realistic possibility of designing similar self-assembled structures with the potential of creating \u201cbuilt-to-order\u201d nanostructures for wide application in electronics and optical devices.<\/p>\n<p>The research was published and featured on the cover of <i>Nano Letters<\/i>, a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Chemical Society.<\/p>\n<p>In general, metamaterials are <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/materials\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">materials<\/a> made in the lab so as to provide specific physical, chemical, electrical, and optical properties otherwise impossible to find in naturally occurring materials. These materials can have <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/unique+properties\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">unique properties<\/a> which make them ideal for a variety of applications from optical filters and medical devices to aircraft soundproofing and infrastructure monitoring. Usually these nano-scale materials are painstakingly produced in a specialized clean room environment over days and weeks in a multi-step fabrication process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team led by University of Minnesota Twin Cities researchers has discovered a groundbreaking one-step process for creating materials with unique properties, called metamaterials. Their results show the realistic possibility of designing similar self-assembled structures with the potential of creating \u201cbuilt-to-order\u201d nanostructures for wide application in electronics and optical devices. The research was published and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118327","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}