{"id":122790,"date":"2021-05-21T19:22:25","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T02:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/strange-black-swan-defect-discovered-in-soft-matter-for-first-time"},"modified":"2021-05-21T19:22:25","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T02:22:25","slug":"strange-black-swan-defect-discovered-in-soft-matter-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/strange-black-swan-defect-discovered-in-soft-matter-for-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Strange \u201cBlack Swan\u201d Defect Discovered in Soft Matter for First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/strange-black-swan-defect-discovered-in-soft-matter-for-first-time.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Using an advanced microscopy technique, Texas A&amp;M researchers have uncovered a twin boundary defect in a soft polymer that has never been observed before.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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 \u2014 something special going on that isn\u2019t typical,\u201d said 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, biological materials, and natural polymers. Therefore, our findings will be valuable to diverse research across the soft matter field.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using an advanced microscopy technique, Texas A&amp;M researchers have uncovered a twin boundary defect in a soft polymer that has never been observed before. 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 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122790","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=122790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}