{"id":99210,"date":"2019-12-01T02:22:34","date_gmt":"2019-12-01T10:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/armored-with-plastic-hair-and-silica-new-perovskite-nanocrystals-show-more-durability"},"modified":"2019-12-09T01:23:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T09:23:00","slug":"armored-with-plastic-hair-and-silica-new-perovskite-nanocrystals-show-more-durability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/armored-with-plastic-hair-and-silica-new-perovskite-nanocrystals-show-more-durability","title":{"rendered":"Armored with plastic \u2018hair\u2019 and silica, new perovskite nanocrystals show more durability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/armored-with-plastic-hair-and-silica-new-perovskite-nanocrystals-show-more-durability3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Perovskite nanocrystals hold promise for improving a wide variety of optoelectronic devices\u2014from lasers to light emitting diodes (LEDs) \u2014 but problems with their durability still limit the material\u2019s broad commercial use.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have demonstrated a novel approach aimed at addressing the material\u2019s durability problem: encasing the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/perovskite\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">perovskite<\/a> inside a double-layer protection system made from plastic and silica.<\/p>\n<p>In a study published Nov. 29 in the journal <i>Science Advances<\/i>, the research team describes a multistep process to produce encased perovskite <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/nanocrystals\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">nanocrystals<\/a> that exhibit strong resistance to degradation in moist environments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perovskite nanocrystals hold promise for improving a wide variety of optoelectronic devices\u2014from lasers to light emitting diodes (LEDs) \u2014 but problems with their durability still limit the material\u2019s broad commercial use. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have demonstrated a novel approach aimed at addressing the material\u2019s durability problem: encasing the perovskite inside a [\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-99210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99210","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=99210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99493,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99210\/revisions\/99493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}