{"id":90595,"date":"2019-05-11T01:22:24","date_gmt":"2019-05-11T08:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/oops-scientists-accidentally-create-new-material-that-makes-batteries-charge-much-faster"},"modified":"2019-05-11T01:22:24","modified_gmt":"2019-05-11T08:22:24","slug":"oops-scientists-accidentally-create-new-material-that-makes-batteries-charge-much-faster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/oops-scientists-accidentally-create-new-material-that-makes-batteries-charge-much-faster","title":{"rendered":"Oops! Scientists accidentally create new material that makes batteries charge much faster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/oops-scientists-accidentally-create-new-material-that-makes-batteries-charge-much-faster3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some of the most famous scientific discoveries happened by accident. From Teflon and the microwave oven to penicillin, <a href=\"https:\/\/newhumanist.org.uk\/articles\/4852\/science-and-serendipity-famous-accidental-discoveries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">scientists trying to solve a problem sometimes find unexpected things<\/a>. This is exactly how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-019-1074-x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">we created<\/a> phosphorene nanoribbons \u2013 a material made from one of the universe\u2019s basic building blocks, but that has the potential to revolutionize a wide range of technologies.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019d been trying to separate layers of phosphorus crystals into two-dimensional sheets. Instead, our technique created tiny, tagliatelle-like ribbons one single atom thick and only 100 or so atoms across, but up to 100,000 atoms long. We spent three years honing the production process, before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-019-1074-x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">announcing our findings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/syndication\/2019\/05\/10\/oops-scientists-accidentally-create-new-material-that-makes-batteries-charge-much-faster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the most famous scientific discoveries happened by accident. From Teflon and the microwave oven to penicillin, scientists trying to solve a problem sometimes find unexpected things. This is exactly how we created phosphorene nanoribbons \u2013 a material made from one of the universe\u2019s basic building blocks, but that has the potential to revolutionize [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90595","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\/90595","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=90595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}