{"id":122718,"date":"2021-05-19T17:23:02","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T00:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/unexpected-black-swan-defect-discovered-in-soft-matter-for-first-time"},"modified":"2021-05-19T17:23:02","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T00:23:02","slug":"unexpected-black-swan-defect-discovered-in-soft-matter-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/unexpected-black-swan-defect-discovered-in-soft-matter-for-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected \u2018Black Swan\u2019 defect discovered in soft matter for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/at26Vg_P_TE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In new research, Texas A&amp;M University scientists have for the first time revealed a single microscopic defect called a \u201ctwin\u201d in a soft-block copolymer using an advanced electron microscopy technique. This defect may be exploited in the future to create materials with novel acoustic and photonic properties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis defect is like a black swan\u2014something special going on that isn\u2019t typical,\u201d said Dr. Edwin Thomas, professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. \u201cAlthough we chose a certain polymer for our study, I think the twin defect will be fairly universal across a bunch of similar soft matter systems, like oils, surfactants, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/biological+materials\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">biological materials<\/a> and natural polymers. Therefore, our findings will be valuable to diverse research across the soft matter field.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The results of the study are detailed in the <i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/i> (<i>PNAS<\/i>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In new research, Texas A&amp;M University scientists have for the first time revealed a single microscopic defect called a \u201ctwin\u201d in a soft-block copolymer using an advanced electron microscopy technique. This defect may be exploited in the future to create materials with novel acoustic and photonic properties. \u201cThis defect is like a black swan\u2014something special [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122718","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=122718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}