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Researchers have discovered a material with graphene-like properties

A team of researchers from Germany and Korea has developed and is now testing a material with physical properties similar to graphene. Its structure is similar to iron-based high-temperature superconductors

The crystal structure of SrMnBi2 resembles iron balls. Image: Marc Uhlarz/HZDR
The crystal structure of SrMnBi2 resembles iron balls. Image: Marc Uhlarz/HZDR

After the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded in 2010 to two scientists who studied the material graphene, this material received a lot of attention. A team of researchers from Germany and Korea has developed and is now testing a material with physical properties similar to graphene. Its structure is similar to iron-based high-temperature superconductors, and thanks to the composition of its individual atoms in the periodic table of the elements, some atoms can be easily converted into other atoms.

These characteristics could lead to the development of new materials that could be superconducting, magnetic, or behave as insulators.

At the beginning of the year, Dr. Jun Sung Kim arrived from South Korea to use the high magnetic field laboratory in Germany, Dresden, in order to test several material samples in high magnetic fields. For the first time ever, they studied the metallic material SrMnBi2 and discovered something amazing: the material, which contains three different elements (strontium, manganese and bismuth), physically behaves similarly to the "magical material" graphene.

In view of its composition and the position of its elements in the periodic table, the material allows a simple and uncomplicated arrangement with other atoms. The introduction of a tiny amount of foreign atoms changes the physical properties of the material. This change may lead to completely new magnetic or superconducting materials.

The findings, which could only be obtained thanks to the use of extremely high magnetic fields, were recently published in the scientific journal Physical Review Letters.

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  1. jewel:
    The link to the original article may not have been working when you replied.
    I just checked and it works.
    Maybe it's fixed or maybe the problem is with you.
    The claim that the link to the original article "never works" is wild slander.

  2. Why does the link to the original news never work?
    What exactly is "physical properties similar to graphene"? Is it a two-dimensional material with a hexagonal honeycomb structure? Is he particularly strong? A good conductor? Is it a good heat conductor?

    Is it a scientific site or a "general sketch that sounds scientific but does not contain any information" site?
    news completely unnecessary In its present form.

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