{"id":35888,"date":"2017-04-04T22:02:28","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T05:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/controlling-forces-between-atoms-molecules-promising-for-2-d-hyperbolic-materials"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:06:20","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:06:20","slug":"controlling-forces-between-atoms-molecules-promising-for-2-d-hyperbolic-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/controlling-forces-between-atoms-molecules-promising-for-2-d-hyperbolic-materials","title":{"rendered":"Controlling forces between atoms, molecules, promising for \u20182-D hyperbolic\u2019 materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/controlling-forces-between-atoms-molecules-promising-for-2-d-hyperbolic-materials.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new approach to control forces and interactions between atoms and molecules, such as those employed by geckos to climb vertical surfaces, could bring advances in new materials for developing quantum light sources.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClosely spaced <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/atoms\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">atoms<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/molecules\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">molecules<\/a> in our environment are constantly interacting, attracting and repelling each other,\u201d said Zubin Jacob, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University. \u201cSuch interactions ultimately enable a myriad of phenomena, such as the sticky pads on gecko feet, as well as photosynthesis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Typically, these interactions occur when atoms and molecules are between 1 to 10 nanometers apart, or roughly 1\/10,000th the width of a human hair.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017-04-atoms-molecules-d-hyperbolic-materials.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017&#45;04-atoms-molecules-d-hyperbolic-materials.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new approach to control forces and interactions between atoms and molecules, such as those employed by geckos to climb vertical surfaces, could bring advances in new materials for developing quantum light sources. \u201cClosely spaced atoms and molecules in our environment are constantly interacting, attracting and repelling each other,\u201d said Zubin Jacob, an assistant professor [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35888","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=35888"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58178,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35888\/revisions\/58178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}