{"id":178986,"date":"2023-12-24T00:42:01","date_gmt":"2023-12-24T06:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/aerogel-could-become-the-key-to-future-terahertz-technologies"},"modified":"2023-12-24T00:42:01","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T06:42:01","slug":"aerogel-could-become-the-key-to-future-terahertz-technologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/aerogel-could-become-the-key-to-future-terahertz-technologies","title":{"rendered":"Aerogel could become the key to future terahertz technologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/aerogel-could-become-the-key-to-future-terahertz-technologies2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>High-frequency terahertz waves have great potential for a number of applications including next-generation medical imaging and communication. Researchers at Link\u00f6ping University, Sweden, have shown, in a study <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/advs.202305898\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>Advanced Science<\/i>, that the transmission of terahertz light through an aerogel made of cellulose and a conducting polymer can be tuned. This is an important step to unlock more applications for terahertz waves.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/terahertz+range\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">terahertz range<\/a> covers wavelengths that lie between microwaves and infrared light on the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/electromagnetic+spectrum\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electromagnetic spectrum<\/a>. It has a very high frequency. Thanks to this, many researchers believe that the terahertz range has great potential for use in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/space+exploration\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">space exploration<\/a>, security technology and communication systems, among other things.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/medical+imaging\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">medical imaging<\/a>, it can also be an interesting substitute for X-ray examinations as the waves can pass through most non-conductive materials without damaging any tissue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High-frequency terahertz waves have great potential for a number of applications including next-generation medical imaging and communication. Researchers at Link\u00f6ping University, Sweden, have shown, in a study published in the journal Advanced Science, that the transmission of terahertz light through an aerogel made of cellulose and a conducting polymer can be tuned. This is an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178986","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}