{"id":194977,"date":"2024-08-22T19:24:01","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T00:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/worlds-first-micromachine-twists-2d-materials-at-will"},"modified":"2024-08-22T19:24:01","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T00:24:01","slug":"worlds-first-micromachine-twists-2d-materials-at-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/worlds-first-micromachine-twists-2d-materials-at-will","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s first micromachine twists 2D materials at will"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/worlds-first-micromachine-twists-2d-materials-at-will2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just a few years ago, researchers discovered that changing the angle between two layers of graphene, an atom-thick sheet of carbon, also changed the material\u2019s electronic and optical properties. They then learned that a \u201ctwist\u201d of 1.1 degrees\u2014dubbed the \u201cmagic\u201d angle\u2014could transform this metallic material into an insulator or a superconductor, a finding that ignited excitement about a possible pathway to new quantum technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few years ago, researchers discovered that changing the angle between two layers of graphene, an atom-thick sheet of carbon, also changed the material\u2019s electronic and optical properties. They then learned that a \u201ctwist\u201d of 1.1 degrees\u2014dubbed the \u201cmagic\u201d angle\u2014could transform this metallic material into an insulator or a superconductor, a finding that ignited [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194977","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=194977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}