{"id":223757,"date":"2025-10-22T01:06:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T06:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/phosphorus-chains-display-true-1d-electronic-properties-on-a-silver-substrate"},"modified":"2025-10-22T01:06:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T06:06:21","slug":"phosphorus-chains-display-true-1d-electronic-properties-on-a-silver-substrate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/phosphorus-chains-display-true-1d-electronic-properties-on-a-silver-substrate","title":{"rendered":"Phosphorus chains display true 1D electronic properties on a silver substrate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/phosphorus-chains-display-true-1d-electronic-properties-on-a-silver-substrate.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time, a team at BESSY II has succeeded in demonstrating the one-dimensional electronic properties of a material through a highly refined experimental process.<\/p>\n<p>The samples consisted of short chains of phosphorus atoms that self-organize at specific angles on a silver substrate. Through sophisticated analysis, the team was able to disentangle the contributions of these differently aligned chains. This revealed that the electronic properties of each chain are indeed one-dimensional. Calculations predict an exciting phase transition to be expected as soon as these chains are more closely packed. While material consisting of individual chains with longer distances is semiconducting, a very dense chain structure would be metallic.<\/p>\n<p>The work is <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/sstr.202500458\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Small Structures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, a team at BESSY II has succeeded in demonstrating the one-dimensional electronic properties of a material through a highly refined experimental process. The samples consisted of short chains of phosphorus atoms that self-organize at specific angles on a silver substrate. Through sophisticated analysis, the team was able to disentangle the contributions [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223757","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\/223757","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}