{"id":75807,"date":"2018-02-07T14:02:39","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T22:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/fast-spinning-spheres-show-nanoscale-systems-secrets"},"modified":"2018-02-07T14:02:39","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T22:02:39","slug":"fast-spinning-spheres-show-nanoscale-systems-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/fast-spinning-spheres-show-nanoscale-systems-secrets","title":{"rendered":"Fast-spinning spheres show nanoscale systems\u2019 secrets"},"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\/5XPFxoOwXsE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Spin a merry-go-round fast enough and the riders fly off in all directions. But the spinning particles in a Rice University lab do just the opposite.<\/p>\n<p>Experiments in the Rice lab of chemical engineer Sibani Lisa Biswal show micron-sized spheres coming together under the influence of a rapidly spinning magnetic <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/field\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">field<\/a>. That\u2019s no surprise because the particles themselves are magnetized.<\/p>\n<p>But how they come together is of interest as the particles first gather into a disorganized aggregated cluster and then into a crystal-like regimen as the magnetic field becomes stronger.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-02-fast-spinning-spheres-nanoscale-secrets.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;02-fast-spinning-spheres-nanoscale-secrets.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spin a merry-go-round fast enough and the riders fly off in all directions. But the spinning particles in a Rice University lab do just the opposite. Experiments in the Rice lab of chemical engineer Sibani Lisa Biswal show micron-sized spheres coming together under the influence of a rapidly spinning magnetic field. That\u2019s no surprise because [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75807","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=75807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}