• BitOneZero@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Essentially, they’re saying you can bake up a sample of this stuff, pop it out of the oven, and just sitting there on your lab bench it will conduct electricity without any resistance.

    From what I have heard, it’s not supposed to be that expensive or even difficult to make. They should have sent actual samples of the material to a dozen different universities from a batch they share their own data measurements about. Save everyone a lot of time about doubts that it’s manufactured correctly.

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      1 year ago

      From that article:

      “The general public seems oddly pumped about how ‘easy’ the 4-day, multistep, small batch, solid state synthesis is,”

      The process is a 3-stage heating-holding-cooling process which they haven’t published the precise temperature profile for. The papers also claim only 4 samples were ever made in total, 2 of them got (destructively) analyzed by gas spectroscopy and crystallography, while of the other 2, one got further temperature annealed, and both got electrically characterized.

      Chances are, they themselves don’t know exactly how they got what they got, and may or may not be capable of producing more samples.