{"id":234078,"date":"2026-03-26T02:23:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T07:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/finding-order-in-disorder-new-mechanism-amplifies-transverse-electron-transport"},"modified":"2026-03-26T02:23:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T07:23:05","slug":"finding-order-in-disorder-new-mechanism-amplifies-transverse-electron-transport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/finding-order-in-disorder-new-mechanism-amplifies-transverse-electron-transport","title":{"rendered":"Finding order in disorder: New mechanism amplifies transverse electron transport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/finding-order-in-disorder-new-mechanism-amplifies-transverse-electron-transport2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For decades, it has been widely believed that electrons move most efficiently in materials that are clean and highly ordered. Much like water flowing more easily through a smooth pipe, conventional wisdom has held that electrical transport improves as a material\u2019s internal structure becomes more perfectly arranged. However, a recent study shows that the opposite can also be true. A research team at POSTECH in South Korea has discovered that engineered disorder can actually enhance electron transport.<\/p>\n<p>The work was conducted by Prof. Hyungyu Jin of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology), Dr. Sang Jun Park (currently a postdoctoral researcher at the National Institute for Materials Science, NIMS, Japan), Prof. Hyun-Woo Lee of the Department of Physics at POSTECH, and Ph.D. student Hojun Lee.<\/p>\n<p>Their findings are <a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/g18j-1h8w\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in Physical Review Letters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, it has been widely believed that electrons move most efficiently in materials that are clean and highly ordered. Much like water flowing more easily through a smooth pipe, conventional wisdom has held that electrical transport improves as a material\u2019s internal structure becomes more perfectly arranged. However, a recent study shows that the opposite [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234078","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=234078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}