{"id":130996,"date":"2021-11-21T06:22:19","date_gmt":"2021-11-21T14:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/magnetene-a-graphene-like-2d-material-leverages-quantum-effects-to-achieve-ultra-low-friction"},"modified":"2021-11-21T06:22:19","modified_gmt":"2021-11-21T14:22:19","slug":"magnetene-a-graphene-like-2d-material-leverages-quantum-effects-to-achieve-ultra-low-friction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/magnetene-a-graphene-like-2d-material-leverages-quantum-effects-to-achieve-ultra-low-friction","title":{"rendered":"Magnetene \u2014 A Graphene-Like 2D Material \u2014 Leverages Quantum Effects To Achieve Ultra-Low Friction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/magnetene-a-graphene-like-2d-material-leverages-quantum-effects-to-achieve-ultra-low-friction2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong> Magnetene could have useful applications as a lubricant in implantable devices or other micro-electro-mechanical systems.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers from University of Toronto Engineering and Rice University have reported the first measurements of the ultra-low-friction behaviour of a material known as magnetene. The results point the way toward strategies for designing similar low-friction materials for use in a variety of fields, including tiny, implantable devices.<\/p>\n<p>Magnetene is a 2D material, meaning it is composed of a single layer of atoms. In this respect, it is similar to graphene 0, a material that has been studied intensively for its unusual properties \u2014 including ultra-low friction \u2014 since its discovery in 2004.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magnetene could have useful applications as a lubricant in implantable devices or other micro-electro-mechanical systems. A team of researchers from University of Toronto Engineering and Rice University have reported the first measurements of the ultra-low-friction behaviour of a material known as magnetene. The results point the way toward strategies for designing similar low-friction materials for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130996","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}