{"id":216242,"date":"2025-06-19T05:28:26","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T10:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/electron-microscopy-technique-captures-nanoparticle-organizations-to-forge-new-materials"},"modified":"2025-06-19T05:28:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T10:28:26","slug":"electron-microscopy-technique-captures-nanoparticle-organizations-to-forge-new-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/electron-microscopy-technique-captures-nanoparticle-organizations-to-forge-new-materials","title":{"rendered":"Electron microscopy technique captures nanoparticle organizations to forge new materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/electron-microscopy-technique-captures-nanoparticle-organizations-to-forge-new-materials.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A research team including members from the University of Michigan have unveiled a new observational technique that\u2019s sensitive to the dynamics of the intrinsic quantum jiggles of materials, or phonons.<\/p>\n<p>This work will help scientists and engineers better design metamaterials\u2014substances that possess exotic properties that rarely exist in nature\u2014that are reconfigurable and made from solutions containing nanoparticles that self-assemble into larger structures, the researchers said. These materials have wide-ranging applications, from shock absorption to devices that guide acoustic and optical energy in high-powered computer applications.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis opens a new research area where nanoscale building blocks\u2014along with their intrinsic optical, electromagnetic and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/chemical+properties\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">chemical properties <\/a>\u2014can be incorporated into mechanical metamaterials, enabling emerging technologies in multiple fields from robotics and mechanical engineering to information technology,\u201d said Xiaoming Mao, U-M professor of physics and co-author of the new study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research team including members from the University of Michigan have unveiled a new observational technique that\u2019s sensitive to the dynamics of the intrinsic quantum jiggles of materials, or phonons. This work will help scientists and engineers better design metamaterials\u2014substances that possess exotic properties that rarely exist in nature\u2014that are reconfigurable and made from solutions [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,4,1617,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-nanotechnology","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216242","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=216242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}