{"id":180072,"date":"2024-01-08T03:24:06","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T09:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/mits-game-changer-ion-irradiation-in-nanoparticle-engineering-for-sustainable-energy"},"modified":"2024-01-08T03:24:06","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T09:24:06","slug":"mits-game-changer-ion-irradiation-in-nanoparticle-engineering-for-sustainable-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/mits-game-changer-ion-irradiation-in-nanoparticle-engineering-for-sustainable-energy","title":{"rendered":"MIT\u2019s Game-Changer: Ion Irradiation in Nanoparticle Engineering for Sustainable Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mits-game-changer-ion-irradiation-in-nanoparticle-engineering-for-sustainable-energy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong> The work demonstrates control over key properties leading to better performance.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>MIT researchers and colleagues have demonstrated a way to precisely control the size, composition, and other properties of nanoparticles key to the reactions involved in a variety of clean energy and environmental technologies. They did so by leveraging ion irradiation, a technique in which beams of charged particles bombard a material.<\/p>\n<p>They went on to show that nanoparticles created this way have superior performance over their conventionally made counterparts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The work demonstrates control over key properties leading to better performance. MIT researchers and colleagues have demonstrated a way to precisely control the size, composition, and other properties of nanoparticles key to the reactions involved in a variety of clean energy and environmental technologies. They did so by leveraging ion irradiation, a technique in which [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,4,48,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180072","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=180072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}