{"id":243252,"date":"2026-08-27T01:30:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T06:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/tiny-atomic-changes-could-lead-to-smarter-wireless-technology"},"modified":"2026-08-27T01:30:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T06:30:42","slug":"tiny-atomic-changes-could-lead-to-smarter-wireless-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/tiny-atomic-changes-could-lead-to-smarter-wireless-technology","title":{"rendered":"Tiny atomic changes could lead to smarter wireless technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tiny-atomic-changes-could-lead-to-smarter-wireless-technology.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have shown that making extremely small changes to the structure of a material can dramatically improve its ability to respond to electrical signals. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.aeg3509\" target=\"_blank\">Published<\/a> recently in <i>Science Advances<\/i>, the breakthrough could help create a new generation of wireless devices that can change frequency on demand, making communication systems more flexible and energy efficient.<\/p>\n<p>The team focused on a ceramic material called strontium tantalate. By replacing a small number of atoms with slightly smaller calcium atoms, they created tiny distortions in the material\u2019s structure. Although these changes occur at the atomic scale, they have a major effect on how the material behaves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have shown that making extremely small changes to the structure of a material can dramatically improve its ability to respond to electrical signals. Published recently in Science Advances, the breakthrough could help create a new generation of wireless devices that can change frequency on demand, making communication systems [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243252","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\/243252","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=243252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}