{"id":236266,"date":"2026-04-30T22:26:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T03:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/room-temperature-multiferroic-could-pave-way-to-low-energy-computing"},"modified":"2026-04-30T22:26:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T03:26:50","slug":"room-temperature-multiferroic-could-pave-way-to-low-energy-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/room-temperature-multiferroic-could-pave-way-to-low-energy-computing","title":{"rendered":"Room-temperature multiferroic could pave way to low-energy computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/room-temperature-multiferroic-could-pave-way-to-low-energy-computing2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers at Rice University has engineered a new version of a well-known multiferroic that exhibits orders of magnitude higher performance at room temperature than its parent material. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.2603475123\" target=\"_blank\">The study<\/a>, published in the <i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/i>, describes a modified version of bismuth ferrite that shows a 10-fold increase in magnetization and 100-fold increase in magnetoelectric coupling compared to standard varieties.<\/p>\n<p>The synthesis process entailed mixing bismuth ferrite with barium titanate while simultaneously growing the material as a thin film on a substrate that distorts its crystal structure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody had ever dialed both knobs\u2014the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-08-physicists-thin-topological-insulators-ferroelectric.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">strain<\/a> and the chemistry\u2014at once,\u201d said Rice materials scientist Lane Martin, who led the study. \u201cWe were able to combine two different material systems into a new material with a new structure and a new combination of properties.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers at Rice University has engineered a new version of a well-known multiferroic that exhibits orders of magnitude higher performance at room temperature than its parent material. The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, describes a modified version of bismuth ferrite that shows a 10-fold increase in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236266","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=236266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}