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Researchers Discover Natural 3D Counterpart to Graphene.
Xbitlabs ^ | 01/21/2014 11:50 PM | Anton Shilov

Posted on 01/23/2014 9:50:30 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach

A collaboration of researchers at the U.S department of energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley national laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has discovered that sodium bismuthide can exist as a form of quantum matter called a three-dimensional topological Dirac semi-metal (3DTDS). This is the first experimental confirmation of 3D Dirac fermions in the interior or bulk of a material, a novel state that was only recently proposed by theorists.

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TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: graphene; sodiumbismuthide; stringtheory
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Haven't seen you for a while Ernest.

Glad to see you back.

21 posted on 01/23/2014 6:46:47 PM PST by Carry_Okie (Grovelnator Shwarzenkaiser: fasionable fascism one charade at a time.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Much Love to you, sir.

I wish you the best.


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