{"id":74657,"date":"2017-12-22T18:05:04","date_gmt":"2017-12-23T02:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/electronically-smooth-3d-graphene-a-bright-future-for-trisodium-bismuthide"},"modified":"2017-12-22T18:05:04","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T02:05:04","slug":"electronically-smooth-3d-graphene-a-bright-future-for-trisodium-bismuthide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/electronically-smooth-3d-graphene-a-bright-future-for-trisodium-bismuthide","title":{"rendered":"Electronically-smooth \u20183D graphene\u2019: A bright future for trisodium bismuthide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/electronically-smooth-3d-graphene-a-bright-future-for-trisodium-bismuthide.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have found that the topological material trisodium bismuthide (Na<sub>3<\/sub>Bi) can be manufactured to be as \u2018electronically smooth\u2019 as the highest-quality graphene-based alternative, while maintaining graphene\u2019s high electron mobility.<\/p>\n<p>Na<sub>3<\/sub>Bi is a Topological Dirac Semimetal (TDS), considered a 3D equivalent of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/graphene\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">graphene<\/a> in that it shows the same extraordinarily high electron mobility.<\/p>\n<p>In graphene, as in a TDS, electrons move at constant velocity, independent of their energy.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017-12-electronically-smooth-d-graphene-bright-future.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017&#45;12-electronically-smooth-d-gr...uture.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have found that the topological material trisodium bismuthide (Na3Bi) can be manufactured to be as \u2018electronically smooth\u2019 as the highest-quality graphene-based alternative, while maintaining graphene\u2019s high electron mobility. Na3Bi is a Topological Dirac Semimetal (TDS), considered a 3D equivalent of graphene in that it shows the same extraordinarily high electron mobility. In graphene, as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74657","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=74657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}