{"id":162370,"date":"2023-04-17T22:23:30","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T03:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/physicists-discover-first-transformable-nanoscale-electronic-devices"},"modified":"2023-04-17T22:23:30","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T03:23:30","slug":"physicists-discover-first-transformable-nanoscale-electronic-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/physicists-discover-first-transformable-nanoscale-electronic-devices","title":{"rendered":"Physicists discover first transformable nanoscale electronic devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-discover-first-transformable-nanoscale-electronic-devices2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The nanoscale electronic parts in devices like smartphones are solid, static objects that once designed and built cannot transform into anything else. But University of California, Irvine physicists have reported the discovery of nanoscale devices that can transform into many different shapes and sizes even though they exist in solid states.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a finding that could fundamentally change the nature of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/electronic+devices\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electronic devices<\/a>, as well as the way scientists research atomic-scale quantum materials. The study is published in Science Advances.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we discovered is that for a particular set of materials, you can make nanoscale electronic devices that aren\u2019t stuck together,\u201d said Javier Sanchez-Yamagishi, an assistant professor of physics &amp; astronomy whose lab performed the new research. \u201cThe parts can move, and so that allows us to modify the size and shape of a device after it\u2019s been made.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nanoscale electronic parts in devices like smartphones are solid, static objects that once designed and built cannot transform into anything else. But University of California, Irvine physicists have reported the discovery of nanoscale devices that can transform into many different shapes and sizes even though they exist in solid states. It\u2019s a finding that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,4,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-nanotechnology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162370","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}