{"id":18886,"date":"2015-10-29T11:46:37","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T18:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/is-black-phosphorous-the-next-big-thing-in-materials"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:20:31","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:20:31","slug":"is-black-phosphorous-the-next-big-thing-in-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/is-black-phosphorous-the-next-big-thing-in-materials","title":{"rendered":"Is black phosphorous the next big thing in materials?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/is-black-phosphorous-the-next-big-thing-in-materials.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Can black phosphorous rival #graphene?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A new experimental revelation about black phosphorus nanoribbons should facilitate the future application of this highly promising material to electronic, optoelectronic and thermoelectric devices. A team of researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)\u2019s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has experimentally confirmed strong in-plane anisotropy in thermal conductivity, up to a factor of two, along the zigzag and armchair directions of single-crystal black phosphorous nanoribbons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImagine the lattice of black phosphorous as a two-dimensional network of balls connected with springs, in which the network is softer along one direction of the plane than another,\u201d says Junqiao Wu, a physicist who holds joint appointments with Berkeley Lab\u2019s Materials Sciences Division and the University of California (UC) Berkeley\u2019s Department of Materials Science and Engineering. \u201cOur study shows that in a similar manner heat flow in the black phosphorous nanoribbons can be very different along different directions in the plane. This thermal conductivity <a href=\"http:\/\/m.phys.org\/tags\/anisotropy\/\" rel=\"tag\">anisotropy<\/a> has been predicted recently for 2D black phosphorous crystals by theorists but never before observed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wu is the corresponding author of a paper describing this research in <i>Nature Communications<\/i> titled \u201cAnisotropic in-plane thermal conductivity of black phosphorus nanoribbons at temperatures higher than 100K.\u201d The lead authors are Sangwook Lee and Fan Yang. (See below for a complete list of authors) <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2015-10-black-phosphorous-big-materials.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can black phosphorous rival #graphene? A new experimental revelation about black phosphorus nanoribbons should facilitate the future application of this highly promising material to electronic, optoelectronic and thermoelectric devices. A team of researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)\u2019s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has experimentally confirmed strong in-plane anisotropy in thermal conductivity, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":379,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18886","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\/379"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18886"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69288,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18886\/revisions\/69288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}