{"id":245037,"date":"2026-10-07T21:42:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T02:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/uranium-compound-known-since-the-1960s-reveals-hidden-spiral-structure-with-unusual-magnetic-properties"},"modified":"2026-10-07T21:42:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T02:42:21","slug":"uranium-compound-known-since-the-1960s-reveals-hidden-spiral-structure-with-unusual-magnetic-properties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/uranium-compound-known-since-the-1960s-reveals-hidden-spiral-structure-with-unusual-magnetic-properties","title":{"rendered":"Uranium compound known since the 1960s reveals hidden spiral structure with unusual magnetic properties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/uranium-compound-known-since-the-1960s-reveals-hidden-spiral-structure-with-unusual-magnetic-properties2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A University of Texas at Dallas scientist and her colleagues have discovered an unusual atomic pattern in a uranium-based material that gives it a rare combination of magnetic properties, a finding that could open new pathways for designing advanced electronic and computer memory devices.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Mengke Liu, an assistant professor of physics in the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, and her collaborators found a previously unrecognized chiral superlattice in a crystal of uranium oxytelluride (UOTe).<\/p>\n<p>Liu is a corresponding author of a study detailing the research that was published online Oct. 7 in the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-026-11073-7\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Nature<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A University of Texas at Dallas scientist and her colleagues have discovered an unusual atomic pattern in a uranium-based material that gives it a rare combination of magnetic properties, a finding that could open new pathways for designing advanced electronic and computer memory devices. Dr. Mengke Liu, an assistant professor of physics in the School [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245037","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=245037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}