{"id":203992,"date":"2025-01-18T02:24:54","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T08:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/metastable-marvel-x-rays-illuminate-an-exotic-material-transformation"},"modified":"2025-01-18T02:24:54","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T08:24:54","slug":"metastable-marvel-x-rays-illuminate-an-exotic-material-transformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/metastable-marvel-x-rays-illuminate-an-exotic-material-transformation","title":{"rendered":"Metastable marvel: X-rays illuminate an exotic material transformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/metastable-marvel-x-rays-illuminate-an-exotic-material-transformation2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A dry material makes a great fire starter, and a soft material lends itself to a sweater. Batteries require materials that can store lots of energy, and microchips need components that can turn the flow of electricity on and off.<\/p>\n<p>Each material\u2019s properties are a result of what\u2019s happening internally. The structure of a material\u2019s atomic scaffolding can take many forms and is often a complex combination of competing patterns. This atomic and electronic landscape determines how a material will interact with the rest of the world, including other materials, electric and magnetic fields, and light.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, as part of a multi-institutional team of universities and national laboratories, are investigating a material with a highly unusual structure\u2014one that changes dramatically when exposed to an ultrafast pulse of light from a laser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dry material makes a great fire starter, and a soft material lends itself to a sweater. Batteries require materials that can store lots of energy, and microchips need components that can turn the flow of electricity on and off. Each material\u2019s properties are a result of what\u2019s happening internally. The structure of a material\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203992","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}