{"id":348830,"date":"2017-07-25T05:43:37","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T09:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=55818b7714cce67eb375d7c6882a4779"},"modified":"2017-07-25T05:43:37","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T09:43:37","slug":"researchers-uncover-new-avenues-for-finding-unique-class-of-insulators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=348830","title":{"rendered":"Researchers uncover new avenues for finding unique class of insulators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the last decade, scientists have sought topological insulators, materials that are insulating on the inside but conduct current on their surfaces. Although first predicted around 2005, very few real-world examples have been found to date. Topological insulators are expected to have wide-ranging applications, including energy-efficient electronics and quantum computing\u2014their special properties allow the surface current to flow freely even in the presence of defects or disturbances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last decade, scientists have sought topological insulators, materials that are insulating on the inside but conduct current on their surfaces. Although first predicted around 2005, very few real-world examples have been found to date. Topological insulators are expected to have wide-ranging applications, including energy-efficient electronics and quantum computing&mdash;their special properties allow the surface current to flow freely even in the presence of defects or disturbances.<\/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-348830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348830","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=348830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348831,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348830\/revisions\/348831"}],"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=348830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=348830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=348830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}