{"id":26238,"date":"2016-05-31T09:04:34","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T16:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/creation-of-weak-materials-offers-strong-possibilities-for-electronics"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:41:53","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:41:53","slug":"creation-of-weak-materials-offers-strong-possibilities-for-electronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/creation-of-weak-materials-offers-strong-possibilities-for-electronics","title":{"rendered":"Creation of Weak Materials Offers Strong Possibilities for Electronics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/creation-of-weak-materials-offers-strong-possibilities-for-electronics.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New fundamental research by UT Dallas physicists may accelerate the drive toward more advanced electronics and more powerful computers.<\/p>\n<p>The scientists are investigating materials called topological insulators, whose surface electrical properties are essentially the opposite of the properties inside.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese materials are made of the same thing throughout, from the interior to the exterior,\u201d said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utdallas.edu\/physics\/zhang-fan\/\">Dr. Fan Zhang<\/a>, assistant professor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utdallas.edu\/physics\/\">physics<\/a> at UT Dallas. \u201cBut, the interior does not conduct electrons \u2014 it\u2019s an insulator \u2014 while the electrons on the surface are free to move around. The surface is therefore a conductor, like a metal, but it is in fact more robust than a metal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utdallas.edu\/news\/2016\/5\/31-32057_Creation-of-Weak-Materials-Offers-Strong-Possibili_story-wide.html?WT.mc_id=NewsRSS\">http:\/\/www.utdallas.edu\/news\/2016\/5\/31&#45;32057_Creation-of...id=NewsRSS<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New fundamental research by UT Dallas physicists may accelerate the drive toward more advanced electronics and more powerful computers. The scientists are investigating materials called topological insulators, whose surface electrical properties are essentially the opposite of the properties inside. \u201cThese materials are made of the same thing throughout, from the interior to the exterior,\u201d said [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1694,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-electronics","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26238","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26238"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50353,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26238\/revisions\/50353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}