Slashdot // World's First Practical Plastic Magnet

Gizmo · 01-September-04, 07:47 AM

Stopmotioncleaverman writes "New Scientist is reporting that scientists at the University of Durham in the UK have created the world's first plastic magnet to work at room temperature from two compounds, emeraldine base polyaniline (PANi) and tetracyanoquinodimethane (TCNQ). In 2001, scientists in Nebraska created a plastic magnet, but it only worked at 10 Kelvin. Most notably from the article - "One of the most likely applications is in the magnetic coating of computer hard discs, which could lead to a new generation of high-capacity discs". This story is also being reported in lots of other places."

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/01/0319204

GlitterKill · 01-September-04, 11:50 AM

That is pretty crazy... maybe someday there will be superlight supercapacity hard drives?

01-September-04, 07:47 AM	#1 (permalink)
Gizmo News Hound Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Floating among Data streams, waiting for the right moment Posts: 44,023	Slashdot // World's First Practical Plastic Magnet Stopmotioncleaverman writes "New Scientist is reporting that scientists at the University of Durham in the UK have created the world's first plastic magnet to work at room temperature from two compounds, emeraldine base polyaniline (PANi) and tetracyanoquinodimethane (TCNQ). In 2001, scientists in Nebraska created a plastic magnet, but it only worked at 10 Kelvin. Most notably from the article - "One of the most likely applications is in the magnetic coating of computer hard discs, which could lead to a new generation of high-capacity discs". This story is also being reported in lots of other places." http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/01/0319204

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