{"id":460,"date":"2008-06-19T04:00:36","date_gmt":"2008-06-19T09:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=460"},"modified":"2008-06-19T04:00:36","modified_gmt":"2008-06-19T09:00:36","slug":"its-not-gnu-but-its-as-good-as-gnu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/460","title":{"rendered":"It&#039;s Not Gnu, But it&#039;s as Good as Gnu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/technology.newscientist.com\/channel\/tech\/dn14140-plastics-unite-to-make-unexpected-metal.html\">Plastics unite to make unexpected &#8216;metal&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Both TTF and TCNQ are electrical insulators. But Morpurgo&#8217;s team found that a 2-nanometre-thick strip along the interface between the two crystals conducts electricity as well as a metal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So it&#8217;s &#8220;metal&#8221; in the sense that it&#8217;s plastic, but conducts very well along the interface.  Apparently using &#8220;conductor&#8221; in the title would have broken some journalistic creed.  Why go for accuracy when you can have imagery?<\/p>\n<p>Neat result, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plastics unite to make unexpected &#8216;metal&#8217; Both TTF and TCNQ are electrical insulators. But Morpurgo&#8217;s team found that a 2-nanometre-thick strip along the interface between the two crystals conducts electricity as well as a metal. So it&#8217;s &#8220;metal&#8221; in the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/460\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,39,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-physics","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}