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posted by martyb on Wednesday March 21 2018, @11:44AM   Printer-friendly
from the Who-knew-basket-weaving-could-be-so-complex? dept.

Japanese basket pattern inspires new material

Researchers have produced a metal with exotic electrical properties by mimicking a pattern from Japanese basket-weaving.

Kagome baskets are characterised by a symmetrical pattern of interlaced, corner-sharing triangles; the pattern has preoccupied physicists for decades.

Metals resembling a kagome pattern on the atomic scale should exhibit peculiar electrical characteristics.

The team behind the first kagome metal has published details in Nature.

Their product is an electrically conducting crystal, made from layers of iron and tin atoms, with each atomic layer arranged in the repeating pattern of a kagome lattice.

When they passed a current across the kagome layers within the crystal, they found that the triangular arrangement of atoms induced strange behaviour in that current.

Instead of flowing straight through, electrons instead veered, or bent back within the lattice.

Trihexagonal tiling.

Massive Dirac fermions in a ferromagnetic kagome metal (DOI: 10.1038/nature25987) (DX)


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by NotSanguine on Thursday March 22 2018, @04:13AM (1 child)

    by NotSanguine (285) <NotSanguineNO@SPAMSoylentNews.Org> on Thursday March 22 2018, @04:13AM (#656477) Homepage Journal

    Because, while a degree may be worthless, education is invaluable.
    Relax, don't feel guilty, I don't expect you to understand the difference between the two; you'd need an unbleached brain for this, it's not your fault you don't have one.

    It could be dangerous, possibly even deadly. As Bokonon [uni.edu] teaches us:

    Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday March 22 2018, @06:15AM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday March 22 2018, @06:15AM (#656494) Journal

    That a seemingly valid explanation for the

    Why don't you fuck the hell off with your bullshit claims that an education is worth more than $zero, you lying piece of shit.

    Not only the person worked hard to remain ignorant, but s/he most likely paid for it through the nose.

    If s/he invested same in learning German, not only s/he'd know one foreign language, but he could get a free-of-tuition-fees education in Germany.
    Perhaps he's be the proud author of the diesel emission cheating code: no matter how dishonest, it's a good solid piece of engineering; if I am to trust @anubi, what he was asked to do while working in US was both dishonest and an engineering shit.

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