{"id":140368,"date":"2022-06-10T16:03:36","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T21:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/room-temperature-molecular-switch-discovery-paves-the-way-for-faster-computers-longer-lasting-batteries"},"modified":"2022-06-10T16:03:36","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T21:03:36","slug":"room-temperature-molecular-switch-discovery-paves-the-way-for-faster-computers-longer-lasting-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/room-temperature-molecular-switch-discovery-paves-the-way-for-faster-computers-longer-lasting-batteries","title":{"rendered":"Room-temperature molecular switch discovery paves the way for faster computers, longer-lasting batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/room-temperature-molecular-switch-discovery-paves-the-way-for-faster-computers-longer-lasting-batteries3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>University of Queensland scientists have cracked a problem that\u2019s frustrated chemists and physicists for years, potentially leading to a new age of powerful, efficient, and environmentally friendly technologies.<\/p>\n<p>Using <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+mechanics\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum mechanics<\/a>, Professor Ben Powell from UQ\u2019s School of Mathematics and Physics has discovered a \u201crecipe\u201d which allows molecular switches to work at room temperature.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSwitches are materials that can shift between two or more states, such as on and off or 0 and 1, and are the basis of all digital technologies,\u201d Professor Powell said. \u201cThis discovery paves the way for smaller and more powerful and energy efficient technologies. You can expect batteries will last longer and computers to run faster.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Queensland scientists have cracked a problem that\u2019s frustrated chemists and physicists for years, potentially leading to a new age of powerful, efficient, and environmentally friendly technologies. Using quantum mechanics, Professor Ben Powell from UQ\u2019s School of Mathematics and Physics has discovered a \u201crecipe\u201d which allows molecular switches to work at room temperature. \u201cSwitches [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,2229,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mathematics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140368","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}