{"id":188306,"date":"2024-04-28T20:22:23","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T01:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/expert-defying-anomaly-scientists-discover-2d-nanomaterial-with-counter-intuitive-expanding-properties"},"modified":"2024-04-28T20:22:23","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T01:22:23","slug":"expert-defying-anomaly-scientists-discover-2d-nanomaterial-with-counter-intuitive-expanding-properties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/expert-defying-anomaly-scientists-discover-2d-nanomaterial-with-counter-intuitive-expanding-properties","title":{"rendered":"Expert-Defying Anomaly \u2014 Scientists Discover 2D Nanomaterial With Counter-Intuitive Expanding Properties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/expert-defying-anomaly-scientists-discover-2d-nanomaterial-with-counter-intuitive-expanding-properties2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is a common hack to stretch a balloon out to make it easier to inflate. When the balloon stretches, the width crosswise shrinks to the size of a string. Noah Stocek, a PhD student collaborating with Western University physicist Giovanni Fanchini, has developed a new nanomaterial that demonstrates the <em>opposite<\/em> of this phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>Working at Interface Science Western, home of the Tandetron Accelerator Facility, Stocek, and Fanchini formulated two-dimensional nanosheets of tungsten semi-carbide (or W2C, a chemical compound containing equal parts of tungsten and carbon atoms) which when stretched in one direction, expand perpendicular to the applied force. This structural design is known as auxetics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a common hack to stretch a balloon out to make it easier to inflate. When the balloon stretches, the width crosswise shrinks to the size of a string. Noah Stocek, a PhD student collaborating with Western University physicist Giovanni Fanchini, has developed a new nanomaterial that demonstrates the opposite of this phenomenon. Working [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,34,4,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188306","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}