{"id":245563,"date":"2026-10-17T09:05:41","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T14:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/electrical-sliding-switches-graphene-between-magnetic-states"},"modified":"2026-10-17T09:05:41","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T14:05:41","slug":"electrical-sliding-switches-graphene-between-magnetic-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/electrical-sliding-switches-graphene-between-magnetic-states","title":{"rendered":"Electrical sliding switches graphene between magnetic states"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/electrical-sliding-switches-graphene-between-magnetic-states.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a discovery that could offer a new way to control quantum properties in two-dimensional materials, researchers at Cornell have found that electrically sliding the layers of ultrathin graphene can switch the material between distinct magnetic states that persist even after the voltage is removed.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers in the lab of Kenji Yasuda, assistant professor in the School of Applied and Engineering Physics in Cornell Duffield College of Engineering, discovered that when voltage was applied to a four-layer graphene stack, the layers slid into different atomic stacking arrangements, allowing the material to alternate between nonmagnetic and magnetic states, according to the study, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41565-026-02306-x\" target=\"_blank\">published Oct. 14 in <i>Nature Nanotechnology<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a discovery that could offer a new way to control quantum properties in two-dimensional materials, researchers at Cornell have found that electrically sliding the layers of ultrathin graphene can switch the material between distinct magnetic states that persist even after the voltage is removed. Researchers in the lab of Kenji Yasuda, assistant professor in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":630,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245563","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\/630"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}