{"id":204637,"date":"2025-01-27T11:13:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T17:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/scientists-make-breakthrough-discovery-after-atomic-spray-painting-experiment-its-like-spray-painting-atoms-onto-a-surface"},"modified":"2025-01-27T11:13:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T17:13:06","slug":"scientists-make-breakthrough-discovery-after-atomic-spray-painting-experiment-its-like-spray-painting-atoms-onto-a-surface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/scientists-make-breakthrough-discovery-after-atomic-spray-painting-experiment-its-like-spray-painting-atoms-onto-a-surface","title":{"rendered":"Scientists make breakthrough discovery after \u2018atomic spray painting\u2019 experiment: \u2018It\u2019s like spray-painting atoms onto a surface\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x2QEiMHl1NY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A research team has discovered that by using a new method of \u201catomic spray painting,\u201d they can tweak the atomic structure of lead-free potassium niobate in order to enhance its ferroelectric properties.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/adma.202408664\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">study<\/a>, created by a team led by Penn State researchers, explains how molecular beam epitaxy can be employed to deposit atomic layers onto a substrate to create thin films, as a report by SciTechDaily <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/atomic-spray-painting-transforms-material-science-for-greener-tech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">explained<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Using a technique called strain tuning, the researchers adjusted how successive layers are aligned to modify a material\u2019s properties by stretching or compressing the atoms that make up its crystal structure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research team has discovered that by using a new method of \u201catomic spray painting,\u201d they can tweak the atomic structure of lead-free potassium niobate in order to enhance its ferroelectric properties. The study, created by a team led by Penn State researchers, explains how molecular beam epitaxy can be employed to deposit atomic layers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204637","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}