Discovered: High-Temperature Non-Metal Magnet

Posted by timothy on Thursday January 31, 2002 @07:32PM from the buckeyballs-can-do-anything dept.

Wonko42 writes: "Russian scientists who were trying to produce high-temperature superconductors accidentally created the first non-metallic magnet that is magnetic at room temperature (and up to 200 degrees Celsius). Previously, non-metallic magnets tended to lose their magnetism at -255 degrees Celsius. The magnet was created by superheating and pressurizing buckyballs to join them together as a sheet. The technology is ideal for use in magnetic storage devices, and could also be used in chips. The material is also photo-sensitive, which means it could be used as an optical storage medium as well. Yay for buckyballs!"

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Ceramic Magnets at RadioShack? by Schnake · 2002-02-01 01:09 · Score: 2, Interesting

You can get Ceramic Magnets at the local RadioShack, up here in Canada. And very powerful I might add!
Isn't a ceramic magnet a non-metallic room-temperature magnet?