? Harvard Physicist Creates Metallic Hydrogen Using Diamond Vise
Using two diamonds, scientists squeezed hydrogen to pressures above those in Earth's core.
Credit: Sang-Heon Shim, Arizona State University
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“One prediction that’s very important is metallic hydrogen is predicted to be meta-stable. That means if you take the pressure off, it will stay metallic, similar to the way diamonds form from graphite under intense heat and pressure, but remain diamonds when that pressure and heat are removed. As much as 15 percent of energy is lost to dissipation during transmission, so if you could make wires from this material and use them in the electrical grid, it could change that story.”
Superconducting links developed to carry currents of up to
20,000 amperes are being tested at CERN. Credit: CERN
"In short, metallic hydrogen could speed the revolution in electronics already underway, thanks to the discovery of materials like graphene. Since metallic hydrogen is also believed to be a superconductor at room temperature, its synthetic production would have immense implications for high-energy research and physics – such as that being conducted by CERN."
Using two diamonds, scientists squeezed hydrogen to pressures above those in Earth's core.
Credit: Sang-Heon Shim, Arizona State University
“One prediction that’s very important is metallic hydrogen is predicted to be meta-stable. That means if you take the pressure off, it will stay metallic, similar to the way diamonds form from graphite under intense heat and pressure, but remain diamonds when that pressure and heat are removed. As much as 15 percent of energy is lost to dissipation during transmission, so if you could make wires from this material and use them in the electrical grid, it could change that story.”
Superconducting links developed to carry currents of up to
20,000 amperes are being tested at CERN. Credit: CERN
"In short, metallic hydrogen could speed the revolution in electronics already underway, thanks to the discovery of materials like graphene. Since metallic hydrogen is also believed to be a superconductor at room temperature, its synthetic production would have immense implications for high-energy research and physics – such as that being conducted by CERN."
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