{"id":11591,"date":"2010-08-03T18:26:20","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T16:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mono-1en-2322"},"modified":"2010-08-03T18:26:20","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T16:26:20","slug":"silicon-can-be-made-to-melt-in-reverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/2010\/08\/03\/silicon-can-be-made-to-melt-in-reverse\/","title":{"rendered":"Silicon Can Be Made to Melt in Reverse"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\n\tLike an ice cube on a warm day, most materials melt &#8212; that is, change from a solid to a liquid state &#8212; as they get warmer. But a few oddball materials do the reverse: They melt as they get cooler. Now a team of researchers at MIT has found that silicon, the most widely used material for computer chips and solar cells, can exhibit this strange property of &#8220;retrograde melting&#8221; when it contains high concentrations of certain metals dissolved in it.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/newsoffice\/2010\/melting-silicon-0802.html\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like an ice cube on a warm day, most materials melt &#8212; that is, change from a solid to a liquid state &#8212; as they get warmer. But a few oddball materials do the reverse: They melt as they get cooler. Now a team of researchers at MIT has found that silicon, the most widely &#8230; <a title=\"Silicon Can Be Made to Melt in Reverse\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/2010\/08\/03\/silicon-can-be-made-to-melt-in-reverse\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"koromo_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-blog","koromo-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/11591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/11591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}