{"id":8485,"date":"2025-08-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/salt-blog\/mit-captures-salt-crystal-migration-in-real-time\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T00:00:00","slug":"mit-captures-salt-crystal-migration-in-real-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/en\/salt-blog\/mit-captures-salt-crystal-migration-in-real-time\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT Captures Salt Crystal Migration in Real Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A team at MIT has visualized salt crystal migration, known as \u201csalt creep,\u201d at the single-crystal scale for the first time using X-ray microscopy. The breakthrough has wide-ranging implications for desalination, civil engineering, and cultural heritage conservation.<\/p>\n<p>Understanding how salt crystals reshape and trigger chain reactions could lead to more effective coatings and drainage systems, preventing salt-induced damage in infrastructure and industrial systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team at MIT has visualized salt crystal migration, known as \u201csalt creep,\u201d at the single-crystal scale for the first time using X-ray microscopy. The breakthrough has wide-ranging implications for desalination, civil engineering, and cultural heritage conservation. Understanding how salt crystals reshape and trigger chain reactions could lead to more effective coatings and drainage systems, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}