{"id":216105,"date":"2025-06-17T06:17:34","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T11:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/new-material-breaks-the-rules-scientists-turn-insulator-into-a-semiconductor"},"modified":"2025-06-17T06:17:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T11:17:34","slug":"new-material-breaks-the-rules-scientists-turn-insulator-into-a-semiconductor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/new-material-breaks-the-rules-scientists-turn-insulator-into-a-semiconductor","title":{"rendered":"New Material Breaks the Rules: Scientists Turn Insulator Into a Semiconductor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-material-breaks-the-rules-scientists-turn-insulator-into-a-semiconductor2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once considered merely insulating, a change in the angle between silicon and oxygen atoms opens a pathway for electrical charge to flow.<\/p>\n<p>A breakthrough discovery from the <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/university-of-michigan\/\">University of Michigan<\/a> has revealed that a new form of silicone can act as a semiconductor. This finding challenges the long-held belief that silicones are only insulating materials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe material opens up the opportunity for new types of flat panel displays, flexible photovoltaics, wearable sensors or even clothing that can display different patterns or images,\u201d said Richard Laine, U-M professor of materials science and engineering and macromolecular science and engineering and corresponding author of the study recently published in Macromolecular Rapid Communications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once considered merely insulating, a change in the angle between silicon and oxygen atoms opens a pathway for electrical charge to flow. A breakthrough discovery from the University of Michigan has revealed that a new form of silicone can act as a semiconductor. This finding challenges the long-held belief that silicones are only insulating materials. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,48,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-particle-physics","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216105","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=216105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}