{"id":155507,"date":"2023-01-14T20:23:13","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T02:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/chemists-cook-up-brand-new-kind-of-nanomaterial"},"modified":"2023-01-14T20:23:13","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T02:23:13","slug":"chemists-cook-up-brand-new-kind-of-nanomaterial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/chemists-cook-up-brand-new-kind-of-nanomaterial","title":{"rendered":"Chemists cook up brand-new kind of nanomaterial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chemists-cook-up-brand-new-kind-of-nanomaterial.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a new nanomaterial on the block. University of Oregon chemists have found a way to make carbon-based molecules with a unique structural feature: interlocking rings.<\/p>\n<p>Like other nanomaterials, these linked-together molecules have interesting properties that can be \u201ctuned\u201d by changing their size and chemical makeup. That makes them potentially useful for an array of applications, such as specialized sensors and new kinds of electronics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a new topology for <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/carbon+nanomaterials\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">carbon nanomaterials<\/a>, and we\u2019re finding new properties that we haven\u2019t been able to see before,\u201d said James May, a graduate student in chemistry professor Ramesh Jasti\u2019s lab and the first author on the paper. May and his colleagues report their findings in a paper published in Nature Chemistry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a new nanomaterial on the block. University of Oregon chemists have found a way to make carbon-based molecules with a unique structural feature: interlocking rings. Like other nanomaterials, these linked-together molecules have interesting properties that can be \u201ctuned\u201d by changing their size and chemical makeup. That makes them potentially useful for an array of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155507","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}