[Red Badger]

Ping!..............

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[P.O.E.]

Not sure “boron arsenide” is the message you want to send during a marriage proposal

[crusty old prospector]

Cool. I found some boronic arsenio in my back yard last week.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“You shouldn’t let a theory prevent you from discovering something even bigger, and this exactly happened in this work,” Ren said.

In other words, Professor Ren is saying "The science is never settled."

Good for him!

[ShadowAce]

“I’m not saying the theory is wrong, but an adjustment needs to be made to be consistent with the experimental data.”

??? Doesn't that mean the theory is wrong?

[JZelle]

Shine on you crazy boron arsenide. If this doesn’t get them back together, nothing will.

[Callahan]

Interesting. If these results hold up, it could change how we handle heat in electronics. The question is whether this can be produced reliably and integrated into chips at a reasonable cost. If they figure that out, the biggest upside is energy savings for the data centers that the Ai industry relies on.

[catnipman]

now they just need to figure out how to make the stuff in commercial quantities:

“the large-scale and high-quality synthesis of cubic boron arsenide remains a significant challenge, though progress is being made through methods like chemical vapor transport.”

[UnwashedPeasant]

Now you tell me! I just filled my furnace with diamonds.

[Billthedrill]

...an adjustment needs to be made to be consistent with the experimental data.

What blasphemy is this? Consistency with experimental data is racist!

[pierrem15]

by Ange Benise Niyikiza, Zeyu Xiang, Fanghao Zhang, Fengjiao Pan, Chunhua Li, Matthew Delmont, David Broido, Ying Peng, Bolin Liao and Zhifeng Ren

So China probably already has the tech already.

[daniel1212]

Despite the breakthrough, the work is far from over. Texas Center for Superconductivity researchers will continue refining their materials,

And since this is advertised, China will spend far more time, energy and money to once again at least gain parity in the latest tech.

[ryderann]

Serious, but slightly weird, question here: If a nuclear explosion turns sand into glass, what would it do to boron arsenide? I asked Duckduckgo and its reply was “Sorry, no relevant information was found in our search.” And what would a bunch of BAs do to the temperature of a nuclear explosion?