{"id":148927,"date":"2022-10-26T18:23:23","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T23:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/scientists-discover-material-that-can-be-made-like-a-plastic-but-conducts-like-a-metal"},"modified":"2022-10-26T18:23:23","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T23:23:23","slug":"scientists-discover-material-that-can-be-made-like-a-plastic-but-conducts-like-a-metal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/scientists-discover-material-that-can-be-made-like-a-plastic-but-conducts-like-a-metal","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover material that can be made like a plastic but conducts like a metal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-material-that-can-be-made-like-a-plastic-but-conducts-like-a-metal2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists with the University of Chicago have discovered a way to create a material that can be made like a plastic, but conducts electricity more like a metal.<\/p>\n<p>The research, published Oct. 26 in <i><i>Nature<\/i>,<\/i> shows how to make a kind of material in which the molecular fragments are jumbled and disordered, but can still conduct electricity extremely well.<\/p>\n<p>This goes against all of the rules we know about for conductivity\u2014to a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/scientist\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">scientist<\/a>, it\u2019s kind of like seeing a car driving on water and still going 70 mph. But the finding could also be extraordinarily useful; if you want to invent something revolutionary, the process often first starts with discovering a completely new material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists with the University of Chicago have discovered a way to create a material that can be made like a plastic, but conducts electricity more like a metal. The research, published Oct. 26 in Nature, shows how to make a kind of material in which the molecular fragments are jumbled and disordered, but can still [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148927","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=148927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}