{"id":8533,"date":"2023-04-14T07:03:42","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T01:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=8533"},"modified":"2025-03-29T03:35:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T22:05:58","slug":"magnetoresistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/magnetoresistance\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnetoresistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Magnetoresistance:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>What is it? <\/strong>It is the result of the electrical resistance of a conductor affected by magnetic fields in adjacent materials.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Applications:<\/strong> It is used in hard disk drives and magneto resistive RAM in computers, biosensors, automotive sensors, microelectromechanical systems, and medical imagers etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Key facts about Graphene<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is composed of monolayer of closely packed <strong>carbon atoms<\/strong> that form a <strong>hexagonal honeycomb lattice.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is the building-block of <strong>Graphite.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is the <strong>thinnest,<\/strong> <strong>most electrically and thermally conductive<\/strong> material in the world.<\/li>\n<li>It is also tremendously strong\u2014about 200 times stronger than steel and flexible, as well as transparent.<\/li>\n<li>It is also known as a wonder material due to its vast potential in the energy and medical world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Graphite?<\/h3>\n<p>Graphite is a naturally occurring mineral that is composed of carbon. It has a layered crystal structure and is the most stable form of carbon under normal conditions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/giant-magnetoresistance-graphene-room-temperature-andre-geim\/article66728864.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>What is magnetoresistance? It\u2019s one more thing graphene does differently<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magnetoresistance is the result of the electrical resistance of a conductor affected by magnetic fields.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8534,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8533","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}