{"id":220009,"date":"2025-08-13T04:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T09:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/structured-light-manipulates-material-properties-and-reveals-atomic-changes-in-nanocrystals"},"modified":"2025-08-13T04:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T09:19:07","slug":"structured-light-manipulates-material-properties-and-reveals-atomic-changes-in-nanocrystals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/structured-light-manipulates-material-properties-and-reveals-atomic-changes-in-nanocrystals","title":{"rendered":"Structured light manipulates material properties and reveals atomic changes in nanocrystals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/structured-light-manipulates-material-properties-and-reveals-atomic-changes-in-nanocrystals2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers with the schools of science and engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) are exploring new ways to manipulate matter with light to unlock a new generation of computer chips, photovoltaic cells and other advanced materials.<\/p>\n<p>Physics professor Moussa N\u2019Gom, Ph.D., and materials science professor Edwin Fohtung, Ph.D., have brought together their respective areas of expertise\u2014optics and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/materials+science\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">materials science <\/a>\u2014to illuminate previously unknown properties of the materials that will build the next generation of consumer, industrial and scientific devices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can use almost the entire spectrum of light, from visible to X-ray, to manipulate and study materials,\u201d Fohtung said. \u201cWe can interrogate any system, from hard condensed matter to soft biological tissue.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers with the schools of science and engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) are exploring new ways to manipulate matter with light to unlock a new generation of computer chips, photovoltaic cells and other advanced materials. Physics professor Moussa N\u2019Gom, Ph.D., and materials science professor Edwin Fohtung, Ph.D., have brought together their respective areas of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220009","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=220009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}