{"id":128596,"date":"2021-10-05T23:22:55","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T06:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/scientists-create-material-made-entirely-out-of-electrons"},"modified":"2021-10-05T23:22:55","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T06:22:55","slug":"scientists-create-material-made-entirely-out-of-electrons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/scientists-create-material-made-entirely-out-of-electrons","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Create Material Made Entirely Out of Electrons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-create-material-made-entirely-out-of-electrons2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists managed to arrange the electrons into a honeycomb-like lattice by sandwiching them in an electric field between two atom-thin layers of tungsten compounds, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-021-03874-9\" class=\"\">according to research<\/a> published in the journal <em>Nature <\/em>last week. The ability to tame them \u2014 which scientists accomplished by exploiting the tiniest differences in the atomic structures of the two tungsten layers \u2014 marks an incredible experimental achievement that has, until now, eluded the most accomplished labs in physics.<\/p>\n<p>Other researchers have claimed that they created Wigner crystals in the past, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-021-02657-6\" class=\"\">and <em>Nature News <\/em>notes<\/a> that they had some convincing evidence. But no one\u2019s actually presented imaged evidence of their crystal before, study coauthor and University of California, Berkeley physicist Feng Wang told <em>Nature News<\/em> in the physicist\u2019s version of a microphone drop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you say you have an electron crystal, show me the crystal,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists managed to arrange the electrons into a honeycomb-like lattice by sandwiching them in an electric field between two atom-thin layers of tungsten compounds, according to research published in the journal Nature last week. The ability to tame them \u2014 which scientists accomplished by exploiting the tiniest differences in the atomic structures of the two [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128596","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\/128596","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}