{"id":3924357,"date":"2026-03-11T09:08:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T14:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/researchers-mix-x-rays-and-optical-light-to-track-speedy-electrons-in-materials\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T09:08:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T14:08:04","slug":"researchers-mix-x-rays-and-optical-light-to-track-speedy-electrons-in-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/researchers-mix-x-rays-and-optical-light-to-track-speedy-electrons-in-materials\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers mix X-rays and optical light to track speedy electrons in materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>To unlock materials of the future, including better photocatalysts or light-switchable superconductors, researchers need to understand how the valence electrons within materials respond to light at the atomic scale. Materials are made of atoms, and an atom&#8217;s outer electrons, or valence electrons, are responsible for chemical bonding as well as a material&#8217;s thermal, magnetic, and electronic properties.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-03-rays-optical-track-speedy-electrons.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To unlock materials of the future, including better photocatalysts or light-switchable superconductors, researchers need to understand how the valence electrons within materials respond to light at the atomic scale. Materials are made of atoms, and an atom&#8217;s outer electrons, or valence electrons, are responsible for chemical bonding as well as a material&#8217;s thermal, magnetic, and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3924357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-in-physics","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3924357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3924357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3924357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3924357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}