{"id":88563,"date":"2019-03-11T13:23:25","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T20:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/ultrathin-and-ultrafast-scientists-pioneer-new-technique-for-two-dimensional-material-analysis"},"modified":"2019-03-11T13:23:25","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T20:23:25","slug":"ultrathin-and-ultrafast-scientists-pioneer-new-technique-for-two-dimensional-material-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/ultrathin-and-ultrafast-scientists-pioneer-new-technique-for-two-dimensional-material-analysis","title":{"rendered":"Ultrathin and ultrafast: Scientists pioneer new technique for two-dimensional material analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ultrathin-and-ultrafast-scientists-pioneer-new-technique-for-two-dimensional-material-analysis2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Discovery allows scientists to look at how 2-D materials move with ultrafast precision.<\/p>\n<p>Using a never-before-seen technique, scientists have found a new way to use some of the world\u2019s most powerful X-rays to uncover how <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/atoms\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">atoms<\/a> move in a single atomic sheet at ultrafast speeds.<\/p>\n<p>The study, led by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and in collaboration with other institutions, including the University of Washington and DOE\u2019s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, developed a new technique called ultrafast <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/surface\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">surface<\/a> X-ray scattering. This technique revealed the changing structure of an atomically thin two-dimensional crystal after it was excited with an optical laser pulse.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-03-ultrathin-ultrafast-scientists-technique-two-dimensional.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019&#45;03-ultrathin-ultrafast-scient...ional.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discovery allows scientists to look at how 2-D materials move with ultrafast precision. Using a never-before-seen technique, scientists have found a new way to use some of the world\u2019s most powerful X-rays to uncover how atoms move in a single atomic sheet at ultrafast speeds. The study, led by researchers at the U.S. Department of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88563","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=88563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}