{"id":230402,"date":"2026-02-03T01:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T07:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/a-clearer-look-at-critical-materials-thanks-to-refrigerator-magnets"},"modified":"2026-02-03T01:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T07:36:10","slug":"a-clearer-look-at-critical-materials-thanks-to-refrigerator-magnets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/a-clearer-look-at-critical-materials-thanks-to-refrigerator-magnets","title":{"rendered":"A clearer look at critical materials, thanks to refrigerator magnets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-clearer-look-at-critical-materials-thanks-to-refrigerator-magnets2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With an advanced technology known as angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), scientists are able to map out a material\u2019s electron energy-momentum relationship, which encodes the material\u2019s electrical, optical, magnetic and thermal properties like an electronic DNA. But the technology has its limitations; it doesn\u2019t work well under a magnetic field. This is a major drawback for scientists who want to study materials that are deployed under or even actuated by magnetic fields.<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by refrigerator magnets, a team of Yale researchers may have found a solution. Their <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acs.jpclett.5c03075\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a> was featured recently on the cover of The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-10-topological-materials-switchable.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">Quantum materials <\/a>\u2014such as unconventional superconductors or topological materials\u2014are considered critical to advancing quantum computing, high-efficiency electronics, nuclear fusion, and other fields. But many of them need to be used in the presence of a magnetic field, or even only become activated by magnetic fields. Being able to directly study the electronic structure of these materials in magnetic fields would be a huge help in better understanding how they work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With an advanced technology known as angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), scientists are able to map out a material\u2019s electron energy-momentum relationship, which encodes the material\u2019s electrical, optical, magnetic and thermal properties like an electronic DNA. But the technology has its limitations; it doesn\u2019t work well under a magnetic field. This is a major drawback for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,1523,873,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-computing","category-nuclear-energy","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230402","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=230402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}