{"id":301130,"date":"2019-11-06T15:05:23","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T18:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=301130"},"modified":"2019-11-14T12:01:09","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T15:01:09","slug":"niobium-in-bloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/niobium-in-bloom\/","title":{"rendered":"Niobium in bloom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/003_Fotolab_279-1140px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"1000\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-301131\" src=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/003_Fotolab_279-1140px.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/003_Fotolab_279-1140px.jpg 700w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/003_Fotolab_279-1140px-250x357.jpg 250w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/003_Fotolab_279-1140px-120x171.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;Flowers&#8221; bloom inside a device that works like a pressure cooker at a University of S\u00e3o Paulo Chemistry Institute (IQ-USP) laboratory. &#8220;We put in neobium ammonium oxalate and ammonium hydroxide,&#8221; says chemist Marcos Vin\u00edcius Petri, who synthesized the compound in partnership with his colleague, Eduardo Carmine de Melo. &#8220;In the right proportions, at the right temperature, and under the right pressure conditions, crystalline structures that look like leaves and flowers are formed.&#8221; These miniscule bouquets can only be seen using an electron microscope. The shape enables them to function more efficiently as catalysts because they have a greater contact surface area. The lab is dedicated to understanding how these compounds work.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image submitted by Marcos Vin\u00edcius Petri, a PhD student at IQ-USP<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Flowers&#8221; bloom inside a device that works like a pressure cooker at a University of S\u00e3o Paulo Chemistry Institute laboratory","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[259],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-301130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photolab","tag-chemistry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301135,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301130\/revisions\/301135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301130"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=301130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}