{"id":374807,"date":"2017-09-18T12:20:21","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T16:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=2f2e447ec7545d62910d966c321a1530"},"modified":"2017-09-18T12:20:21","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T16:20:21","slug":"just-squeeze-in-researchers-discover-when-spaces-are-tight-nature-loosens-its-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=374807","title":{"rendered":"Just squeeze in\u2014researchers discover when spaces are tight, nature loosens its laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that when they&#8217;re in a hurry and space is limited, ions, like people, will find a way to cram in\u2014even if that means defying nature&#8217;s norms. Recently published research from an international team of scientists, including Drexel University&#8217;s Yury Gogotsi, PhD, shows that the charged particles will actually forgo their &#8220;opposites attract&#8221; behavior, called Coulombic ordering, when confined in the tiny pores of a nanomaterial. This discovery could be a pivotal development for energy storage, water treatment and alternative energy production technologies, which all involve ions packing into nanoporous materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that when they&#8217;re in a hurry and space is limited, ions, like people, will find a way to cram in&mdash;even if that means defying nature&#8217;s norms. Recently published research from an international team of scientists, including Drexel University&#8217;s Yury Gogotsi, PhD, shows that the charged particles will actually forgo their &#8220;opposites attract&#8221; behavior, called Coulombic ordering, when confined in the tiny pores of a nanomaterial. This discovery could be a pivotal development for energy storage, water treatment and alternative energy production technologies, which all involve ions packing into nanoporous materials.<\/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-374807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374807","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=374807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374808,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374807\/revisions\/374808"}],"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=374807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=374807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=374807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}