{"id":366815,"date":"2017-08-31T07:40:03","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T11:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=849d4805edc2579a0fb29d2ef8639a5e"},"modified":"2017-08-31T07:40:03","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T11:40:03","slug":"controlling-traffic-on-the-electron-highway-researching-graphene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=366815","title":{"rendered":"Controlling traffic on the electron highway\u2014researching graphene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On an otherwise normal day in the lab, Eva Andrei didn&#8217;t expect to make a major discovery. Andrei, a physics professor at Rutgers University, was using graphite \u2013 the material in pencils \u2013 to calibrate a scanning tunneling microscope. As part of the process, she turned on a very powerful magnetic field. When she looked up to see the material&#8217;s electronic spectrum, she was astonished. &#8220;We saw huge, beautiful peaks up there, just incredible. And they didn&#8217;t make any sense,&#8221; she recalled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On an otherwise normal day in the lab, Eva Andrei didn&#8217;t expect to make a major discovery. Andrei, a physics professor at Rutgers University, was using graphite &ndash; the material in pencils &ndash; to calibrate a scanning tunneling microscope. As part of the process, she turned on a very powerful magnetic field. When she looked up to see the material&#8217;s electronic spectrum, she was astonished. &#8220;We saw huge, beautiful peaks up there, just incredible. And they didn&#8217;t make any sense,&#8221; she recalled.<\/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-366815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366815","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=366815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":366816,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366815\/revisions\/366816"}],"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=366815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=366815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=366815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}