{"id":18534,"date":"2015-10-19T05:48:07","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T12:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/graphene-nano-coils-are-natural-electromagnets"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:21:13","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:21:13","slug":"graphene-nano-coils-are-natural-electromagnets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/graphene-nano-coils-are-natural-electromagnets","title":{"rendered":"Graphene nano-coils are natural electromagnets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/graphene-nano-coils-are-natural-electromagnets.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the drive to miniaturize electronics, solenoids have become way too big, say Rice University scientists who discovered the essential component can be scaled down to nano-size with macro-scale performance.<\/p>\n<p>The secret is in a spiral form of atom-thin graphene that, remarkably, can be found in nature, according to Rice theoretical physicist Boris Yakobson and his colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>\u0093Usually, we determine the characteristics for materials we think might be possible to make, but this time we\u0092re looking at a configuration that already exists,\u0094 Yakobson said. \u0093These spirals, or screw dislocations, form naturally in graphite during its growth, even in common coal.\u0094<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:inline; margin: 0;\" src=\"\" alt=\"nano-coil made of graphene\" border=\"0\" align=\"middle\">.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanowerk.com\/nanotechnology-news\/newsid=41628.php\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the drive to miniaturize electronics, solenoids have become way too big, say Rice University scientists who discovered the essential component can be scaled down to nano-size with macro-scale performance. The secret is in a spiral form of atom-thin graphene that, remarkably, can be found in nature, according to Rice theoretical physicist Boris Yakobson and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694,1635,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-materials","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18534","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=18534"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69350,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18534\/revisions\/69350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}