{"id":181431,"date":"2024-01-26T14:23:41","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T20:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/combining-two-types-of-molecular-boron-nitride-could-create-hybrid-material-for-faster-more-powerful-electronics"},"modified":"2024-01-26T14:23:41","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T20:23:41","slug":"combining-two-types-of-molecular-boron-nitride-could-create-hybrid-material-for-faster-more-powerful-electronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/combining-two-types-of-molecular-boron-nitride-could-create-hybrid-material-for-faster-more-powerful-electronics","title":{"rendered":"Combining two types of molecular boron nitride could create hybrid material for faster, more powerful electronics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/combining-two-types-of-molecular-boron-nitride-could-create-hybrid-material-for-faster-more-powerful-electronics2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In chemistry, structure is everything. Compounds with the same chemical formula can have different properties depending on the arrangement of the molecules they\u2019re made of. And compounds with a different chemical formula but a similar molecular arrangement can have similar properties.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/topics\/chemistry\/graphene\">Graphene<\/a> and a form of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/boron\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">boron<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/nitride\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">nitride<\/a> called hexagonal boron nitride fall into the latter group. Graphene is made up of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/carbon+atoms\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">carbon atoms<\/a>. Boron nitride, BN, is composed of boron and nitrogen atoms. While their chemical formulas differ, <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1063\/PT.3.3297\">they have a similar structure <\/a>\u2014so similar that many chemists call hexagonal boron nitride \u201cwhite graphene.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carbon-based graphene has lots of useful properties. It\u2019s thin but strong, and it conducts heat and electricity very well, making it ideal for use in electronics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In chemistry, structure is everything. Compounds with the same chemical formula can have different properties depending on the arrangement of the molecules they\u2019re made of. And compounds with a different chemical formula but a similar molecular arrangement can have similar properties. Graphene and a form of boron nitride called hexagonal boron nitride fall into the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181431","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=181431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}