{"id":87917,"date":"2019-02-18T15:42:39","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T23:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/exotic-spiraling-electrons-discovered"},"modified":"2019-02-18T15:42:39","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T23:42:39","slug":"exotic-spiraling-electrons-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/exotic-spiraling-electrons-discovered","title":{"rendered":"Exotic spiraling electrons discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/exotic-spiraling-electrons-discovered.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rutgers and other physicists have discovered an exotic form of electrons that spin like planets and could lead to advances in lighting, solar cells, lasers and electronic displays.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s called a \u201cchiral surface <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/exciton\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">exciton<\/a>,\u201d and it consists of particles and anti-particles bound together and swirling around each other on the surface of solids, according to a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>Chiral refers to entities, like your right and left hands, that match but are asymmetrical and can\u2019t be superimposed on their mirror image.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-02-exotic-spiraling-electrons-physicists.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019&#45;02-exotic-spiraling-electrons-physicists.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rutgers and other physicists have discovered an exotic form of electrons that spin like planets and could lead to advances in lighting, solar cells, lasers and electronic displays. It\u2019s called a \u201cchiral surface exciton,\u201d and it consists of particles and anti-particles bound together and swirling around each other on the surface of solids, according to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1633,8,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-solar-power","category-space","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87917","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}