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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.
Massive Dirac fermions in a ferromagnetic kagome metal (DOI: 10.1038/nature25987) (DX)
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday March 22 2018, @06:15AM
That a seemingly valid explanation for the
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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