{"id":308748,"date":"2017-05-01T06:22:38","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T10:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=59797c3bf9a760aa1c977ea634e35048"},"modified":"2017-05-01T06:22:38","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T10:22:38","slug":"a-fast-non-destructive-test-for-two-dimensional-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=308748","title":{"rendered":"A fast, non-destructive test for two-dimensional materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By now, it is well understood that thinning a material down to a single atom thickness can dramatically change that material&#8217;s physical properties. Graphene, the best known 2-D material, has unparalleled strength and electrical conductivity, unlike its bulk form as graphite. Researchers have begun to study hundreds of other 2-D materials for the purposes of electronics, sensing, early cancer diagnosis, water desalination and a host of other applications. Now, a team of Penn State researchers in the Department of Physics and the Center for Two-Dimensional and Layered Materials (2DLM) has developed a fast, nondestructive optical method for analyzing defects in two-dimensional materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By now, it is well understood that thinning a material down to a single atom thickness can dramatically change that material&#8217;s physical properties. Graphene, the best known 2-D material, has unparalleled strength and electrical conductivity, unlike its&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=308748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308749,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308748\/revisions\/308749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=308748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=308748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=308748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}