{"id":77259,"date":"2018-03-29T19:43:25","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T02:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/controlling-rust-makes-beautiful-nanoflowers-for-storage"},"modified":"2018-03-29T19:43:25","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T02:43:25","slug":"controlling-rust-makes-beautiful-nanoflowers-for-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/controlling-rust-makes-beautiful-nanoflowers-for-storage","title":{"rendered":"Controlling rust makes beautiful \u2018nanoflowers\u2019 for storage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/controlling-rust-makes-beautiful-nanoflowers-for-storage2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have developed a straightforward way to make a type of conducting polymers with high surface area\u2014called \u201cnanoflowers\u201d\u2014potentially useful for energy transfer and storage.<\/p>\n<p>If you could brush your cheek against a nanoflower\u2019s microscopic petals, you\u2019d find them cool, hard, and\u2026 rusty. Common rust forms the inner skeleton of these lovely and intricate nanostructures, while their outer layer is a kind of plastic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRust will always pose a challenge in Earth\u2019s humid and oxygenated atmosphere,\u201d says Julio M. D\u2019Arcy, assistant professor of chemistry at Washington University in St. Louis and a member of the Institute of Materials Science and Engineering. \u201cCorrosion makes structures fragile and decreases the ability of components to function properly. But in our lab, we\u2019ve learned how to control the growth of rust so that it can serve an important purpose.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.futurity.org\/rust-nanoflowers-polymers-1718082\/\">https:\/\/www.futurity.org\/rust-nanoflowers-polymers-1718082\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have developed a straightforward way to make a type of conducting polymers with high surface area\u2014called \u201cnanoflowers\u201d\u2014potentially useful for energy transfer and storage. If you could brush your cheek against a nanoflower\u2019s microscopic petals, you\u2019d find them cool, hard, and\u2026 rusty. Common rust forms the inner skeleton of these lovely and intricate nanostructures, while [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77259","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}