{"id":240898,"date":"2026-07-15T04:18:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T09:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/twisted-ultrathin-magnet-retains-magnetization-after-field-changes-study-finds"},"modified":"2026-07-15T04:18:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T09:18:31","slug":"twisted-ultrathin-magnet-retains-magnetization-after-field-changes-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/twisted-ultrathin-magnet-retains-magnetization-after-field-changes-study-finds","title":{"rendered":"Twisted ultrathin magnet retains magnetization after field changes, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/twisted-ultrathin-magnet-retains-magnetization-after-field-changes-study-finds.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The properties of ultrathin magnets can be specifically altered by a slight twist between two atomic monolayers. This is the conclusion reached by an international research team led by TU Darmstadt in a <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-026-75186-3\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a> published in <i>Nature Communications<\/i>. The findings open new prospects for future memory devices.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time, the researchers observed that an extremely thin magnetic material\u2014a so-called two-dimensional van der Waals magnet\u2014\u201d stores\u201d its magnetic state: It responds to a magnetic field and retains some of its magnetization even when the applied field changes. This \u201cmemory\u201d is known as hysteresis and forms the basis of many data storage systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The properties of ultrathin magnets can be specifically altered by a slight twist between two atomic monolayers. This is the conclusion reached by an international research team led by TU Darmstadt in a study published in Nature Communications. The findings open new prospects for future memory devices. For the first time, the researchers observed that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240898","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=240898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}