{"id":140448,"date":"2022-06-12T10:12:29","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T15:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/ai-solution-makes-the-quest-for-elusive-monolayers-a-lot-simpler"},"modified":"2022-06-12T10:12:29","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T15:12:29","slug":"ai-solution-makes-the-quest-for-elusive-monolayers-a-lot-simpler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/ai-solution-makes-the-quest-for-elusive-monolayers-a-lot-simpler","title":{"rendered":"AI solution makes the quest for elusive monolayers a lot simpler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-solution-makes-the-quest-for-elusive-monolayers-a-lot-simpler.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the most tedious, daunting tasks for undergraduate assistants in university research labs involves looking hours on end through a microscope at samples of material, trying to find monolayers.<\/p>\n<p>These <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/two-dimensional+materials\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">two-dimensional materials <\/a>\u2014less than 1\/100,000th the width of a human hair\u2014are highly sought for use in electronics, photonics, and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/optoelectronic+devices\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">optoelectronic devices<\/a> because of their unique properties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cResearch labs hire armies of undergraduates to do nothing but look for monolayers,\u201d says Jaime Cardenas, an assistant professor of optics at the University of Rochester. \u201cIt\u2019s very tedious, and if you get tired, you might miss some of the monolayers or you might start making misidentifications.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most tedious, daunting tasks for undergraduate assistants in university research labs involves looking hours on end through a microscope at samples of material, trying to find monolayers. These two-dimensional materials \u2014less than 1\/100,000th the width of a human hair\u2014are highly sought for use in electronics, photonics, and optoelectronic devices because of their [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140448","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}