This could be the key to the electric battery problems. Can you imagine just charging a battery once for the life of the vehicle?
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Described by one of the researchers as “the most >> condensed form of energy storage outside of nuclear energy,” the material >> holds potential for creating a new class of energetic materials or fuels, an >> energy storage device, super-oxidizing materials for destroying chemical and >> biological agents, and high temperature superconductors. >> >> The researchers created the material in a diamond anvil cell – a small, >> two-inch by three-inch-diameter device capable of producing extremely high >> pressures in a small space. The cell contained xenon difluoride (XeF2), a >> white crystal used to etch silicon conductors, squeezed between two small >> diamond anvils. >> >> At normal atmospheric pressure, the material's molecules stay relatively >> far apart from each other. But as researchers increased the pressure inside >> the chamber, the material became a two-dimensional graphite-like >> semiconductor. At around 50 GPa, the XeF2 transforms into a reddish >> two-dimensional graphite-like hexagonal layered structure of semiconducting >> XeF4. Above 70 GPa, it further transforms into a black three-dimensional >> fluorite-like structure of the first observed metallic XeF8 polyhedron. >> >> The researchers eventually increased the pressure to more than a million >> atmospheres, comparable to what would be found halfway to the center of the >> earth. WSU chemistry professor, Choong-Shik Yoo, says all this "squeezing" >> forced the molecules to make tightly bound three-dimensional metallic >> "network structures." In the process, the huge amount of mechanical energy >> of compression was stored as chemical energy in the molecules' bonds. >> >> Yoo says the research is basic science, but that it shows it is possible >> to store mechanical energy into the chemical energy of a material with such >> strong chemical bonds. >> >> The study detailing the WSU <http://www.wsu.edu/> team’s research, “Two- >> and three-dimensional extended solids and metallization of compressed XeF2, >> appears in the journal *Nature >> Chemistry<http://www.nature.com/nchem/index.html> >> *. >> >> >> -- >> Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! >> Mahogany at: >> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ >> > > > > -- > "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell > wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik > > > -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! 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