This Radical New Metal from Outer Space Could Transform Everything—from Electric Vehicles to Nuclear Submarines::Two high-profile labs are on the verge mass produce a metal only found in space—tetrantaenite. That could revolutionize how how we make everything—from phones to nuclear subs.

  • MataVatnik@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    A lot of these miracle materials have finicky molecular structures. It’s a problem with electric batteries as well. I’m a chemist and everytime I think of material science I think there is something limiting about it, it can only go so far and you can only do so much, so any time I hear of some new super material I’m skeptical. Always happy to be proven wrong though.

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      1 year ago

      You’re correct and it’s yet to be shown if the alloy will work as hoped. My post was only to help show it’s not a misleading title.

      It may not ever work properly as a rare earth metal replacement but nothing about the title promises that. Just that it could and it’s being worked on. Something to be hopeful for but that’s all for now.