{"id":128478,"date":"2021-10-03T04:24:44","date_gmt":"2021-10-03T11:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/unplanned-discovery-a-super-material-for-batteries-and-other-energy-conversion-devices"},"modified":"2021-10-03T04:24:44","modified_gmt":"2021-10-03T11:24:44","slug":"unplanned-discovery-a-super-material-for-batteries-and-other-energy-conversion-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/unplanned-discovery-a-super-material-for-batteries-and-other-energy-conversion-devices","title":{"rendered":"Unplanned Discovery: A Super Material for Batteries and Other Energy Conversion Devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/unplanned-discovery-a-super-material-for-batteries-and-other-energy-conversion-devices.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Unplanned discovery could lead to future pivotal discoveries in batteries, fuel cells, devices for converting heat to electricity and more.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Scientists normally conduct their research by carefully selecting a research problem, devising an appropriate plan to solve it and executing that plan. But unplanned discoveries can happen along the way.<\/p>\n<p>Mercouri Kanatzidis, professor at Northwestern University with a joint appointment in the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, was searching for a new superconductor with unconventional behavior when he made an unexpected discovery. It was a material that is only four atoms thick and allows for studying the motion of charged particles in only two dimensions. Such studies could spur the invention of new materials for a variety of energy conversion devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unplanned discovery could lead to future pivotal discoveries in batteries, fuel cells, devices for converting heat to electricity and more. Scientists normally conduct their research by carefully selecting a research problem, devising an appropriate plan to solve it and executing that plan. But unplanned discoveries can happen along the way. Mercouri Kanatzidis, professor at Northwestern [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128478","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\/128478","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=128478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}