{"id":34125,"date":"2017-02-04T01:23:45","date_gmt":"2017-02-04T09:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/scientists-simulate-a-new-material-that-could-be-even-weirder-than-graphene"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:51:21","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:51:21","slug":"scientists-simulate-a-new-material-that-could-be-even-weirder-than-graphene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/scientists-simulate-a-new-material-that-could-be-even-weirder-than-graphene","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Simulate a New Material That Could Be Even Weirder Than Graphene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xDeQSq-H_5E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We all love graphene \u2014 the one-atom-thick sheets of carbon aren\u2019t just super flexible, harder than diamond, and stronger than steel, they\u2019ve also recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/graphene-s-superconductive-power-has-finally-been-unlocked-and-it-s-crazier-than-we-expected\">become superconductors<\/a> in their own right.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s not the only over-achieving nanomaterial out there. Researchers have just simulated a stretched out, one-dimensional (1D) chain of boron, predicting that the material could have even weirder properties than graphene.<\/p>\n<p>To be clear, 1D boron chains haven\u2019t been created as yet \u2014 so far, this research is purely based on detailed computer simulations of the new material.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-simulate-a-new-1d-material-that-could-be-even-weirder-than-graphene\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-simulate-a-new-1d-mat...n-graphene<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all love graphene \u2014 the one-atom-thick sheets of carbon aren\u2019t just super flexible, harder than diamond, and stronger than steel, they\u2019ve also recently become superconductors in their own right. But it\u2019s not the only over-achieving nanomaterial out there. Researchers have just simulated a stretched out, one-dimensional (1D) chain of boron, predicting that the material [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,4,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34125","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34125"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58879,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34125\/revisions\/58879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}