{"id":204388,"date":"2025-01-23T17:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T23:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/exotic-electron-crystal-uncovered-in-graphene"},"modified":"2025-01-23T17:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T23:25:07","slug":"exotic-electron-crystal-uncovered-in-graphene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/exotic-electron-crystal-uncovered-in-graphene","title":{"rendered":"Exotic electron crystal uncovered in graphene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/exotic-electron-crystal-uncovered-in-graphene2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a groundbreaking study published in Nature, researchers from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techexplorist.com\/university\/university-of-british-columbia\/\">University of British Columbia<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techexplorist.com\/university\/university-of-washington\/\">University of Washington<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techexplorist.com\/university\/johns-hopkins-university\/\">Johns Hopkins University<\/a> have identified a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techexplorist.com\/novel-quantum-state-elemental-solid\/83006\/\">new class of quantum states<\/a> in a specially engineered graphene structure. They found topological electronic crystals in twisted bilayer\u2013tilayer graphene, made by stacking and twisting two-dimensional graphene layers.<\/p>\n<p>Graphene, composed of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb structure, has unique electrical properties due to the way electrons hop between the carbon atoms.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Joshua Folk from UBC explains that stacking two graphene flakes with a slight twist creates a geometric interference effect known as a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Moir%C3%A9_pattern\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">moir\u00e9 pattern<\/a>, changing how electrons move, slowing them down, and twisting their motion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a groundbreaking study published in Nature, researchers from the University of British Columbia, the University of Washington, and Johns Hopkins University have identified a new class of quantum states in a specially engineered graphene structure. They found topological electronic crystals in twisted bilayer\u2013tilayer graphene, made by stacking and twisting two-dimensional graphene layers. Graphene, composed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204388","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\/204388","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}