{"id":158442,"date":"2023-02-18T18:25:44","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T00:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/making-nanoparticle-building-blocks-for-new-materials"},"modified":"2023-02-18T18:25:44","modified_gmt":"2023-02-19T00:25:44","slug":"making-nanoparticle-building-blocks-for-new-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/making-nanoparticle-building-blocks-for-new-materials","title":{"rendered":"Making nanoparticle building blocks for new materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/making-nanoparticle-building-blocks-for-new-materials.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some researchers are driven by the quest to improve a specific product, like a battery or a semiconductor. Others are motivated by tackling questions faced by a given industry. Rob Macfarlane, MIT\u2019s Paul M. Cook Associate Professor in Materials Science and Engineering, is driven by a more fundamental desire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like to make things,\u201d Macfarlane says. \u201cI want to make materials that can be functional and useful, and I want to do so by figuring out the basic principles that go into making new structures at many different size ranges.\u201d (Image: Adam Glanzman) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some researchers are driven by the quest to improve a specific product, like a battery or a semiconductor. Others are motivated by tackling questions faced by a given industry. Rob Macfarlane, MIT\u2019s Paul M. Cook Associate Professor in Materials Science and Engineering, is driven by a more fundamental desire. \u201cI like to make things,\u201d Macfarlane [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158442","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=158442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}