{"id":227439,"date":"2025-12-19T01:36:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T07:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/archimedean-screw-inspires-new-way-to-encode-chirality-into-magnetic-materials"},"modified":"2025-12-19T01:36:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T07:36:47","slug":"archimedean-screw-inspires-new-way-to-encode-chirality-into-magnetic-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/archimedean-screw-inspires-new-way-to-encode-chirality-into-magnetic-materials","title":{"rendered":"Archimedean screw inspires new way to encode chirality into magnetic materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/archimedean-screw-inspires-new-way-to-encode-chirality-into-magnetic-materials.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In physics and materials science, the term \u201cspin chirality\u201d refers to an asymmetry in the arrangement of spins (i.e., the intrinsic angular momentum of particles) in magnetic materials. This asymmetry can give rise to unique electronic and magnetic behaviors that are desirable for the development of spintronics, devices that leverage the spin of electrons and electric charge to process or store information.<\/p>\n<p>The creation of materials that exhibit desired spin chirality and associated physical effects on a large scale has so far proved challenging. In a recent paper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41565-025-02055-3\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature Nanotechnology<\/i>, researchers at \u00c9cole Polytechnique F\u00e9d\u00e9rale de Lausanne (EPFL), the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids and other institutes introduced a new approach to encode chirality directly into materials by engineering their geometry at a nanoscale.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDirk and myself were initially inspired by the elegance of the Archimedean screw and began wondering whether we could build a magnonic analog, something that could \u2018pump\u2019 magnons (i.e., collective electron spin excitations) in a similarly directional way,\u201d Dr. Mingran Xu, first author of the paper, told Tech Xplore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In physics and materials science, the term \u201cspin chirality\u201d refers to an asymmetry in the arrangement of spins (i.e., the intrinsic angular momentum of particles) in magnetic materials. This asymmetry can give rise to unique electronic and magnetic behaviors that are desirable for the development of spintronics, devices that leverage the spin of electrons and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,38,4,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-engineering","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227439","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=227439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}