{"id":226038,"date":"2025-11-27T17:05:48","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T23:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/x-ray-imaging-uncovers-hidden-structures-in-liquid-metal-grown-crystals"},"modified":"2025-11-27T17:05:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T23:05:48","slug":"x-ray-imaging-uncovers-hidden-structures-in-liquid-metal-grown-crystals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/x-ray-imaging-uncovers-hidden-structures-in-liquid-metal-grown-crystals","title":{"rendered":"X-Ray Imaging Uncovers Hidden Structures in Liquid-Metal-Grown Crystals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/x-ray-imaging-uncovers-hidden-structures-in-liquid-metal-grown-crystals2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The delicate internal structure of platinum <a href=\"https:\/\/thedebrief.org\/everything-is-born-out-of-nothing-scientists-release-video-of-first-ever-visible-time-crystal\/\">crystals<\/a> growing in <a href=\"https:\/\/thedebrief.org\/watch-this-liquid-metal-robot-escape-from-jail-just-like-terminator-2\/\">liquid metal<\/a> has been revealed, according to new research employing a powerful <a href=\"https:\/\/thedebrief.org\/the-hidden-force-of-avalanches-physics-breakthrough-using-x-ray-technology-tracks-complex-interactions-for-the-first-time\/\">X-ray<\/a> technique that reveals new implications for <a href=\"https:\/\/thedebrief.org\/quantum-adversaries-new-quantum-computing-research-tackles-malicious-actors\/\">quantum computing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>UNSW Professor Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh, with the University of New South Wales (UNSW), led the study, which was reported in a recent paper in <em><i>Nature Communications<\/i><\/em>. The team behind the project has a history of specializing in exploiting <a href=\"https:\/\/thedebrief.org\/exclusive-morpheus-space-unveils-new-thruster-that-uses-liquid-metal-as-a-propellant\/\">liquid metals<\/a> to produce new materials and green catalysts that improve industrial <a href=\"https:\/\/thedebrief.org\/simulated-chemical-reaction-magically-slowed-by-100-billion-times-by-using-quantum-technologies\/\">chemical reactions<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The delicate internal structure of platinum crystals growing in liquid metal has been revealed, according to new research employing a powerful X-ray technique that reveals new implications for quantum computing. UNSW Professor Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh, with the University of New South Wales (UNSW), led the study, which was reported in a recent paper in Nature Communications. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226038","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}