{"id":79425,"date":"2018-06-10T23:43:54","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T06:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/rutgers-physicists-create-new-class-of-2d-artificial-materials"},"modified":"2018-06-11T11:02:04","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T18:02:04","slug":"rutgers-physicists-create-new-class-of-2d-artificial-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/rutgers-physicists-create-new-class-of-2d-artificial-materials","title":{"rendered":"Rutgers physicists create new class of 2D artificial materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rutgers-physicists-create-new-class-of-2d-artificial-materials2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 1965, a renowned Princeton University physicist theorized that ferroelectric metals could conduct electricity despite not existing in nature.<\/p>\n<p>For decades, scientists thought it would be impossible to prove the theory by Philip W. Anderson, who shared the 1977 Nobel Prize in physics. It was like trying to blend fire and water, but a Rutgers-led international team of scientists has verified the theory and their findings are published online in <em>Nature Communications<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s exciting,\u201d said Jak Chakhalian, a team leader of the study and Professor Claud Lovelace Endowed Chair in Experimental Physics at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. \u201cWe created a new class of two-dimensional artificial materials with ferroelectric-like properties at room temperature that don\u2019t exist in nature yet can conduct electricity. It\u2019s an important link between a theory and an experiment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2018-06\/ru-rpc060818.php\">https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2018&#45;06\/ru-rpc060818.php<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1965, a renowned Princeton University physicist theorized that ferroelectric metals could conduct electricity despite not existing in nature. For decades, scientists thought it would be impossible to prove the theory by Philip W. Anderson, who shared the 1977 Nobel Prize in physics. It was like trying to blend fire and water, but a Rutgers-led [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79425","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=79425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79477,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79425\/revisions\/79477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}