{"id":244491,"date":"2026-09-25T01:30:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T06:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/physicists-define-new-material-blueprint-for-next-generation-microchip-encryption"},"modified":"2026-09-25T01:30:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T06:30:38","slug":"physicists-define-new-material-blueprint-for-next-generation-microchip-encryption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/physicists-define-new-material-blueprint-for-next-generation-microchip-encryption","title":{"rendered":"Physicists define new material blueprint for next-generation microchip encryption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-define-new-material-blueprint-for-next-generation-microchip-encryption2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Behind every secure online transaction or encrypted message lies a string of completely unpredictable numbers. A team of physicists has now proposed a theoretical way around a long-standing roadblock, opening the door to next-generation security chips that protect everyday data without slowing performance.<\/p>\n<p>In a study published in <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1103\/8vd7-ffng\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Physical Review Letters<\/i><\/a>, a research team co-led by Rice University\u2019s Jun-Jie Zhang and Boris Yakobson describes a new class of materials. The research was conducted in collaboration with Shuai Dong, chair of the School of Physics at Southeast University in China.<\/p>\n<p>These materials, called autferroics, could speed up physical true random number generators (TRNG) thousands of times while keeping signals clear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Behind every secure online transaction or encrypted message lies a string of completely unpredictable numbers. A team of physicists has now proposed a theoretical way around a long-standing roadblock, opening the door to next-generation security chips that protect everyday data without slowing performance. In a study published in Physical Review Letters, a research team co-led [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1625,219,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-encryption","category-physics","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244491","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=244491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}