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The formula for turning cement into metal

Capt'n Midnight · 2013-05-30 21:10:51

http://www.anl.gov/articles/formula-turning-cement-metal link to paper http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/05/30/1300908110.full.pdf+html

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http://www.anl.gov/articles/formula-turning-cement-metal

In a move that would make the Alchemists of King Arthur’s time green with envy, scientists have unraveled the formula for turning liquid cement into liquid metal. This makes cement a semi-conductor and opens up its use in the profitable consumer electronics marketplace for thin films, protective coatings, and computer chips.
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This change demonstrates a unique way to make metallic-glass material, which has positive attributes including better resistance to corrosion than traditional metal, less brittleness than traditional glass, conductivity, low energy loss in magnetic fields, and fluidity for ease of processing and molding. Previously, only metals have been able to transition to a metallic-glass form. Cement does this by a process called electron trapping, a phenomena only previously seen in ammonia solutions. Understanding how cement joined this exclusive club opens the possibility of turning other solid normally insulating materials into room-temperature semiconductors.

link to paper
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/05/30/1300908110.full.pdf+html

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