{"id":93699,"date":"2019-07-15T17:02:49","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T00:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/digital-alchemy-reverse-engineers-useful-crystals"},"modified":"2019-07-15T17:02:49","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T00:02:49","slug":"digital-alchemy-reverse-engineers-useful-crystals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/digital-alchemy-reverse-engineers-useful-crystals","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Digital alchemy\u2019 reverse-engineers useful crystals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/digital-alchemy-reverse-engineers-useful-crystals2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rather than waiting around for serendipity, materials scientists would like to dream up a wonder material and then figure out how to make it. It\u2019s this \u201cinverse\u201d approach to designing materials\u2014working backward from the desired properties\u2014that the team is calling \u201cdigital alchemy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt really allows us to focus on the outcome and leverage what we know to find a starting point to building that material,\u201d says Greg van Anders, a corresponding author of the paper and now an assistant professor of physics at Queen\u2019s University in Kingston, Ontario.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rather than waiting around for serendipity, materials scientists would like to dream up a wonder material and then figure out how to make it. It\u2019s this \u201cinverse\u201d approach to designing materials\u2014working backward from the desired properties\u2014that the team is calling \u201cdigital alchemy.\u201d \u201cIt really allows us to focus on the outcome and leverage what we [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93699","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=93699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}