{"id":247824,"date":"2026-07-07T07:30:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T11:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=247824"},"modified":"2026-06-23T09:34:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T13:34:51","slug":"new-materials-new-possibilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2026\/07\/new-materials-new-possibilities\/","title":{"rendered":"New Materials: New Possibilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"expanded\" class=\"style-scope ytd-text-inline-expander\"><span class=\"ytAttributedStringHost ytAttributedStringWhiteSpacePreWrap\" dir=\"auto\" role=\"text\"><span class=\"ytAttributedStringLinkInheritColor\" dir=\"auto\">From smartphones and computers to medical devices and clean energy technologies, the future depends on materials that are faster, smarter, and more efficient. At UConn, physicist Menka Jain and her research team are developing next-generation materials that could power electronic devices with unprecedented speed while dramatically reducing energy consumption. Through cutting-edge research and innovation, they are exploring how the unique properties of advanced materials can help solve some of society&#8217;s most pressing technological challenges. Discover how UConn researchers are creating new possibilities through materials science\u2014and shaping the future one breakthrough at a time.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From smartphones and computers to medical devices and clean energy technologies, the future depends on materials that are faster, smarter, and more efficient<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":247826,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2708,2226,2711,2460,2076,2235,2227,70],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2169],"class_list":["post-247824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biotech","category-clas","category-emerging-technology","category-faculty","category-research","category-today-homepage","category-uconn-edu-homepage","category-video","post_format-post-format-video"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-14 11:50:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247827,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247824\/revisions\/247827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/247826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247824"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=247824"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=247824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}