{"id":212353,"date":"2025-04-24T17:11:20","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T22:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/quantum-simulations-of-new-materials-for-the-21st-century"},"modified":"2025-04-24T17:11:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T22:11:20","slug":"quantum-simulations-of-new-materials-for-the-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/quantum-simulations-of-new-materials-for-the-21st-century","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Simulations of New Materials for the 21st Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-simulations-of-new-materials-for-the-21st-century.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We are surrounded by a multiplicity of materials, from metals and alloys to crystals, glasses, and ceramics; from polymers and plastics to organic and living-derived substances; and let\u2019s not forget natural materials like stone and exotic materials like aerogel.<\/p>\n<p>The amazing thing to me is that all these materials are formed from different combinations of the same small group of elements. For example, while living organisms and other objects can contain traces of many elements, a core group does the heavy lifting; only six elements\u2014carbon \u00a9, hydrogen (H), oxygen (O), nitrogen (N), phosphorus \u2117, and sulfur (S)\u2014make up over 95% of the mass of most living things.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, only eight elements\u2014oxygen (O), silicon (Si), aluminum (Al), iron (Fe), calcium (Ca), Sodium (Na), potassium (K), and magnesium (Mg)\u2014make up more than 98% of the Earth\u2019s crust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are surrounded by a multiplicity of materials, from metals and alloys to crystals, glasses, and ceramics; from polymers and plastics to organic and living-derived substances; and let\u2019s not forget natural materials like stone and exotic materials like aerogel. The amazing thing to me is that all these materials are formed from different combinations of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212353","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}