{"id":181830,"date":"2024-02-01T10:22:49","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T16:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/study-unveils-key-dynamics-of-2d-nanomaterials-with-view-to-larger-scale-production"},"modified":"2024-02-01T10:22:49","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T16:22:49","slug":"study-unveils-key-dynamics-of-2d-nanomaterials-with-view-to-larger-scale-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/study-unveils-key-dynamics-of-2d-nanomaterials-with-view-to-larger-scale-production","title":{"rendered":"Study unveils key dynamics of 2D nanomaterials with view to larger-scale production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-unveils-key-dynamics-of-2d-nanomaterials-with-view-to-larger-scale-production2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of Rice University researchers mapped out how flecks of 2D materials move in liquid \u23af knowledge that could help scientists assemble macroscopic-scale materials with the same useful properties as their 2D counterparts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo-dimensional nanomaterials are extremely thin\u2014only several atoms thick\u2014sheet-shaped materials,\u201d said Utana Umezaki, a Rice graduate student who is a lead author on <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acsnano.3c11053\">a study<\/a> published in <i>ACS Nano<\/i>. \u201cThey behave very differently from materials we\u2019re used to in daily life and can have really useful properties: They can withstand a lot of force, resist high temperatures and so on. To take advantage of these unique properties, we have to find ways to turn them into larger-scale materials like films and fibers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In order to maintain their special properties in bulk form, sheets of 2D materials have to be properly aligned \u23af a process that often occurs in solution phase. Rice researchers focused on graphene, which is made up of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/carbon+atoms\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">carbon atoms<\/a>, and hexagonal boron nitride, a material with a similar structure to graphene but composed of boron and nitrogen atoms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of Rice University researchers mapped out how flecks of 2D materials move in liquid \u23af knowledge that could help scientists assemble macroscopic-scale materials with the same useful properties as their 2D counterparts. \u201cTwo-dimensional nanomaterials are extremely thin\u2014only several atoms thick\u2014sheet-shaped materials,\u201d said Utana Umezaki, a Rice graduate student who is a lead author [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181830","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=181830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}