{"id":169040,"date":"2023-08-04T22:22:42","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T03:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/scientists-discover-unusual-ultrafast-motion-in-layered-magnetic-materials"},"modified":"2023-08-04T22:22:42","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T03:22:42","slug":"scientists-discover-unusual-ultrafast-motion-in-layered-magnetic-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/scientists-discover-unusual-ultrafast-motion-in-layered-magnetic-materials","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover unusual ultrafast motion in layered magnetic materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-unusual-ultrafast-motion-in-layered-magnetic-materials2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A common metal paper clip will stick to a magnet. Scientists classify such iron-containing materials as ferromagnets. A little over a century ago, physicists Albert Einstein and Wander de Haas reported a surprising effect with a ferromagnet. If you suspend an iron cylinder from a wire and expose it to a magnetic field, it will start rotating if you simply reverse the direction of the magnetic field.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEinstein and de Haas\u2019s experiment is almost like a magic show,\u201d said Haidan Wen, a physicist in the Materials Science and X-ray Science divisions of the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory. \u201cYou can cause a cylinder to rotate without ever touching it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In <i>Nature<\/i>, a team of researchers from Argonne and other U.S. national laboratories and universities now report an analogous yet different effect in an \u201canti\u201d-ferromagnet. This could have important applications in devices requiring ultra-precise and ultrafast motion control. One example is high-speed nanomotors for biomedical applications, such as use in nanorobots for minimally invasive diagnosis and surgery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A common metal paper clip will stick to a magnet. Scientists classify such iron-containing materials as ferromagnets. A little over a century ago, physicists Albert Einstein and Wander de Haas reported a surprising effect with a ferromagnet. If you suspend an iron cylinder from a wire and expose it to a magnetic field, it will [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169040","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=169040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}