Carbon Magnets At Room Temperature

Bolie writes: "Trying to make high temperature super conductors yielded an unexpected result. The pure carbon bucky ball material was put under pressure to make sheets. That worked. Picture microscopic bubble pack. But the result was a sheet that was magnetic at room temperature. It has not escaped the attention of the discoverer, Tatiana Makarova, that this might be useful for a non-metallic computer memory. The material is also lighter than metals, flexible and transparent. Lasers anyone?"

Comments

Re:Towards a room temperature superconductor

[gill]

Exuse me, AC, but what the hell are these statements doing in your post?

Niggers must be incarcerated. (paragraph 2)

Niggers trying to wear human clothes look so funny, don't you think? (paragraph 4)

I seriously do not beleive that anybody can come up with a credible argument against complete incineration of the negro race. (paragraph 10)

Niggers roaming freely in human inhabited areas is unacceptable. (paragraph 11)

I do not understand! The rest of your post seems so on-topic.

Re:They're comparing MINUS 255 and PLUS 200

[Dyolf Knip]

But to her surprise, she found instead that the new material was magnetic even above 200 C. Until now, the highest temperature at which a non-metallic material was magnetic was 255 C. This record was held by a different form of buckyballs.

Cut and pasted straight from the article. Now, my eyesight may be going, but I'm pretty sure that there's no minus 255 C in there. Kindly shut the hell up.

It's evidently a typo on New Scientist's part. They could mean -255 C, they could also mean 255 K, which would make just as much sense.