{"id":231525,"date":"2026-02-17T14:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T20:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/first-observation-of-ultra-thin-2d-materials-in-a-state-between-solid-and-liquid"},"modified":"2026-02-17T14:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T20:06:08","slug":"first-observation-of-ultra-thin-2d-materials-in-a-state-between-solid-and-liquid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/first-observation-of-ultra-thin-2d-materials-in-a-state-between-solid-and-liquid","title":{"rendered":"First observation of ultra-thin 2D materials in a state between solid and liquid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-observation-of-ultra-thin-2d-materials-in-a-state-between-solid-and-liquid.webp\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When a crystal is just one atom thick, melting gets weird \u2014 and scientists have finally caught it on camera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a crystal is just one atom thick, melting gets weird \u2014 and scientists have finally caught it on camera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231525","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\/231525","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}