{"id":164164,"date":"2023-05-19T11:25:38","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T16:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/researchers-discover-new-self-assembled-crystal-structures"},"modified":"2023-05-19T11:25:38","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T16:25:38","slug":"researchers-discover-new-self-assembled-crystal-structures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/researchers-discover-new-self-assembled-crystal-structures","title":{"rendered":"Researchers discover new self-assembled crystal structures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-discover-new-self-assembled-crystal-structures2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using a targeted computational approach, researchers in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Cornell University have found more than 20 new self-assembled crystal structures, none of which had been observed previously.<\/p>\n<p>The research, published in the journal <i>ACS Nano<\/i> under the title \u201cTargeted Discovery of Low-Coordinated Crystal Structures via Tunable Particle Interactions,\u201d is authored by Ph.D. student Hillary Pan and her advisor Julia Dshemuchadse, assistant professor of materials science and engineering.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEssentially we were trying to figure out what kinds of new <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/crystal+structure\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">crystal structure<\/a> configurations we can self-assemble in simulation,\u201d Pan said. \u201cThe most exciting thing was that we found new structures that weren\u2019t previously listed in any crystal structure database; these particles are actually assembling into something that nobody had ever seen before.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using a targeted computational approach, researchers in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Cornell University have found more than 20 new self-assembled crystal structures, none of which had been observed previously. The research, published in the journal ACS Nano under the title \u201cTargeted Discovery of Low-Coordinated Crystal Structures via Tunable Particle Interactions,\u201d is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164164","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}