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.
Massive Dirac fermions in a ferromagnetic kagome metal (DOI: 10.1038/nature25987) (DX)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @12:14PM (11 children)
Will this make anime real?
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday March 21 2018, @12:21PM
We can't rule it out.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by c0lo on Wednesday March 21 2018, @12:42PM (7 children)
No, but only one step from the memetical "underwater basket weaving" college diploma to become a very sought after job guarantee - they'll only need to do kagome alloys while submerged.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @01:12PM (3 children)
"Dudebro, graduate with a double major in math and CS, and you'll earn six figures, guaranteed."
BLATANT LIES.
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.
(Score: 4, Funny) by c0lo on Wednesday March 21 2018, @01:22PM (2 children)
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.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by NotSanguine on Thursday March 22 2018, @04:13AM (1 child)
It could be dangerous, possibly even deadly. As Bokonon [uni.edu] teaches us:
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(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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(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Wednesday March 21 2018, @03:55PM
This will need to occur when they replace the tin layer with adamantium and the iron with vibranium. It will have to be fused underwater.
(Passing nitpick that a new *metal* hasn't been discovered, a new alloy formulation has occurred.)
This sig for rent.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Wednesday March 21 2018, @05:38PM (1 child)
Well, the reason for weaving baskets underwater is that that's necessary to maintain the pliancy of the reeds...so...
The analogy would be, perhaps, high temperature metallic basket weaving, to maintain the pliancy of the wires. Of course, from the summary I suspect that the wires are invisibly small, so you need to be quite dexterous in the handling of your tools.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday March 21 2018, @06:16PM
You could be quite dexterous in the handling of your tools, but when things have heated up and bending start to happen, invisibly small wire is just not gonna get it done.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @02:20PM
Consider the seedy, high-stakes underworld of Mahjong and Shogi as depicted in anime and manga.
Personally, I'm now hoping to find out more about the fast and furious world of underwater basket weaving.
One thing anime lacks, however, is any engagement with the cut-throat world of archaeology (Indiana Jones, Stargate, etc).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @02:29PM
No, but for one day only, you're really posting on a Japanese basket-weaving board.
(Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Wednesday March 21 2018, @12:25PM (4 children)
> Japanese basket pattern inspires new material
I hate that. It leads people to think that somehow the ancient Japanese knew about Quantum Hall effect etc; and feeds the idea that ancients had "ancient mystical knowledge" which we are just mimicking with our modern science.
Further it is, almost certainly, untrue.
(Score: 4, Informative) by takyon on Wednesday March 21 2018, @12:32PM (1 child)
I think you're overanalyzing that headline or need coffee.
"inspires new material" doesn't imply that ancient Japanese people knew anything about the quantum effects of an atomic lattice shape.
The headline is only claiming that a pattern was observed, and applied in a new way.
If people are led to think otherwise... too bad for them. Try opening the rare BBC comment section when you see one, and you'll know that you are fighting a losing battle.
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(Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Wednesday March 21 2018, @03:45PM
> I think you're overanalyzing that headline or need coffee.
Well I always need coffee so that much is true.
> you are fighting a losing battle.
One can live in hope for a better future.
(Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Wednesday March 21 2018, @08:22PM
"Further it is, almost certainly, untrue."
Your persecution means that we must be on to something, and that you are part of the conspiracy. It's certainly the only explanation I can think of that makes sense, right everyone?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 22 2018, @03:43AM
I'm imagining E-f's head exploding as he sees the pattern. [google.com]
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @12:59PM
Reardon metal is real!!!
Get your government hands out of my pockets!!!!!
(Score: 2) by shortscreen on Wednesday March 21 2018, @05:57PM
They'll be singing a different tune after I squash them with a giant mech!