{"id":146931,"date":"2022-09-24T03:25:48","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T08:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/science-is-on-brink-of-a-materials-revolution"},"modified":"2022-09-24T03:25:48","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T08:25:48","slug":"science-is-on-brink-of-a-materials-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/science-is-on-brink-of-a-materials-revolution","title":{"rendered":"Science is on brink of a materials revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/science-is-on-brink-of-a-materials-revolution2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Imagine a world where super-strong, super-light, flexible, durable new materials, which don\u2019t exist in nature could be made to order. New breakthroughs in the understanding of \u201cspin\u201d, a characteristic of subatomic particles \u2014 like mass and charge \u2014 mean we are on the brink of such a revolution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ability to control spin, one of the fundamental properties of particles, is crucial to us being able to design advanced new materials that will change the world,\u201d says Prof Alessandro Lunghi, a physicist at Trinity College Dublin, who heads up a team investigating the phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>The scientific concepts of particle mass and charge are widely understood and known, but the third property of particles \u2014 that of spin \u2014 remains mysterious to most. It\u2019s a concept that even many scientists struggle to understand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine a world where super-strong, super-light, flexible, durable new materials, which don\u2019t exist in nature could be made to order. New breakthroughs in the understanding of \u201cspin\u201d, a characteristic of subatomic particles \u2014 like mass and charge \u2014 mean we are on the brink of such a revolution. \u201cThe ability to control spin, one of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146931","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=146931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}