{"id":174490,"date":"2023-10-20T10:23:18","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/rare-electronic-state-discovered-when-graphene-stacks-up"},"modified":"2023-10-20T10:23:18","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:23:18","slug":"rare-electronic-state-discovered-when-graphene-stacks-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/rare-electronic-state-discovered-when-graphene-stacks-up","title":{"rendered":"Rare Electronic State Discovered When Graphene Stacks Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rare-electronic-state-discovered-when-graphene-stacks-up2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The super-special material <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/graphene\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">graphene<\/a> continues to surprise and fascinate scientists, this time revealing a rare electronic state termed \u2018ferro-valleytricity\u2019, which occurs when graphene is stacked up in a particular five-layer combination.<\/p>\n<p>When in this new state, the graphene stack exhibits weird and wonderful magnetic and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Electronics\">electronic behavior<\/a>, as reported by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard University, and the National Institute for Materials Science in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Using graphene in this way could help in the development of both classical and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/quantum-computers\">quantum computers<\/a>, according to the team, especially in terms of creating data storage solutions that offer large capacities but that also need relatively little energy to run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The super-special material graphene continues to surprise and fascinate scientists, this time revealing a rare electronic state termed \u2018ferro-valleytricity\u2019, which occurs when graphene is stacked up in a particular five-layer combination. When in this new state, the graphene stack exhibits weird and wonderful magnetic and electronic behavior, as reported by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174490","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}