{"id":165743,"date":"2023-06-14T09:23:50","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T14:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/scientists-predict-never-before-seen-crystal-structures-with-unexpected-chemistry"},"modified":"2023-06-14T09:23:50","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T14:23:50","slug":"scientists-predict-never-before-seen-crystal-structures-with-unexpected-chemistry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/scientists-predict-never-before-seen-crystal-structures-with-unexpected-chemistry","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Predict Never-Before-Seen Crystal Structures With Unexpected Chemistry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-predict-never-before-seen-crystal-structures-with-unexpected-chemistry2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ultra-high pressure can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-diamond-caught-and-preserved-the-deepest-rare-earth-mineral-science-has-ever-examined\">have strange effects<\/a> in physics and chemistry, and in a new study, high-pressure modeling has led to the prediction of four new compounds: compounds that don\u2019t form in normal ways, have crystal structures we\u2019ve never seen before, and can even act as superconductors in certain temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>Those compounds are Li<sub>14 <\/sub>Cs, Li<sub>8<\/sub>Cs, Li<sub>7<\/sub>Cs, and Li<sub>6<\/sub>Cs, and they\u2019re all formed from lithium (Li) and cesium (Cs) \u2013 though not in a conventional way. All four are superconductors, which means electricity can flow through them without resistance or energy loss.<\/p>\n<p>The scientists behind the study used a special crystal structure prediction algorithm called USPEX (Universal Structure Predictor: Evolutionary Xtallography) to find these new compounds. It\u2019s known as an evolutionary algorithm, using a range of methods to figure out the probability of how atoms will link together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ultra-high pressure can have strange effects in physics and chemistry, and in a new study, high-pressure modeling has led to the prediction of four new compounds: compounds that don\u2019t form in normal ways, have crystal structures we\u2019ve never seen before, and can even act as superconductors in certain temperatures. Those compounds are Li14 Cs, Li8Cs, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":579,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,41,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-information-science","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165743","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\/579"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}