{"id":551378,"date":"2018-12-03T17:28:40","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T21:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=da5ddadb056a88f3e3cfd2ff35a00ec2"},"modified":"2018-12-03T17:28:40","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T21:28:40","slug":"borophene-advances-as-2-d-materials-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=551378","title":{"rendered":"Borophene advances as 2-D materials platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Borophene\u2014two-dimensional (2-D) atom-thin-sheets of boron, a chemical element traditionally found in fiberglass insulation\u2014is anything but boring. Though boron is a nonmetallic semiconductor in its bulk (3-D) form, it becomes a metallic conductor in 2-D. Borophene is extremely flexible, strong, and lightweight\u2014even more so than its carbon-based analogue, graphene. These unique electronic and mechanical properties make borophene a promising material platform for next-generation electronic devices such as wearables, biomolecule sensors, light detectors, and quantum computers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Borophene&mdash;two-dimensional (2-D) atom-thin-sheets of boron, a chemical element traditionally found in fiberglass insulation&mdash;is anything but boring. Though boron is a nonmetallic semiconductor in its bulk (3-D) form, it becomes a metallic conductor in 2-D. Borophene is extremely flexible, strong, and lightweight&mdash;even more so than its carbon-based analogue, graphene. These unique electronic and mechanical properties make borophene a promising material platform for next-generation electronic devices such as wearables, biomolecule sensors, light detectors, and quantum computers.<\/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-551378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551378","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=551378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":551379,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551378\/revisions\/551379"}],"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=551378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=551378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=551378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}