{"id":241887,"date":"2026-07-30T20:33:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T01:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/a-simple-twist-could-unlock-a-new-generation-of-electronics"},"modified":"2026-07-30T20:33:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T01:33:05","slug":"a-simple-twist-could-unlock-a-new-generation-of-electronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/a-simple-twist-could-unlock-a-new-generation-of-electronics","title":{"rendered":"A Simple Twist Could Unlock a New Generation of Electronics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-simple-twist-could-unlock-a-new-generation-of-electronics2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Scientists can now twist large oxide crystals into new materials with potentially powerful electronic properties.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A carefully chosen twist can transform how a material behaves. Researchers have now found a way to apply that principle to large sheets of crystalline oxides, opening a potential route toward electronic materials with structures and properties that can be designed with unusual precision.<\/p>\n<p>The approach gives scientists control over the angle between two stacked oxide layers while creating strong chemical bonds where they meet. Unlike many earlier twistronic materials, the resulting structures can also be produced across areas large enough to be more relevant for practical devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists can now twist large oxide crystals into new materials with potentially powerful electronic properties. A carefully chosen twist can transform how a material behaves. Researchers have now found a way to apply that principle to large sheets of crystalline oxides, opening a potential route toward electronic materials with structures and properties that can be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241887","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=241887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}