{"id":228230,"date":"2026-01-02T17:06:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T23:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/zentropy-theory-may-unlock-previously-impossible-electronics-based-on-transparent-ceramics"},"modified":"2026-01-02T17:06:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T23:06:22","slug":"zentropy-theory-may-unlock-previously-impossible-electronics-based-on-transparent-ceramics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/zentropy-theory-may-unlock-previously-impossible-electronics-based-on-transparent-ceramics","title":{"rendered":"\u201cZentropy Theory\u201d May Unlock Previously Impossible Electronics Based on Transparent Ceramics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/zentropy-theory-may-unlock-previously-impossible-electronics-based-on-transparent-ceramics.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was no existing theory in the ferroelectrics community that could explain these results,\u201d Liu explained.<\/p>\n<p><b><strong>Keeping Chaos at Bay with Small Amounts of Energy<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p>To unlock the advanced material\u2019s performance and open up potential commercial applications, Haixue Yan, a reader in materials science and engineering from Queen Mary University of London, explored several different ideas. That search effort led him to Liu\u2019s relatively new zentropy theory idea. According to a statement announcing the new approach, zentropy theory suggests that systems trend towards disorder \u201cif no energy is applied to keep the chaos at bay.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere was no existing theory in the ferroelectrics community that could explain these results,\u201d Liu explained. Keeping Chaos at Bay with Small Amounts of Energy To unlock the advanced material\u2019s performance and open up potential commercial applications, Haixue Yan, a reader in materials science and engineering from Queen Mary University of London, explored several different [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228230","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=228230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}