Transparent aluminum named new state of matter.
We all remember the scene from Star Trek IV in which Scotty, despite his unfamiliarity with the Apple Macintosh mouse, hammered out the molecular structure of transparent aluminum. The real material is a little more exotic, requiring a high-power laser pulse to knock out a core electron with disrupting the metal’s crystalline structure. Transparent only to UV light for just 40 femtoseconds, this aluminum is nonetheless unlike anything scientists have ever created.
Detailed from july 29th 2009 issue R&D Magazine.
http://www.rdmag.com/ShowPR.aspx?PUBCODE=014&ACCT=1400000101&ISSUE=0907&RELTYPE=MS&PRODCODE=00000000&PRODLETT=PA&CommonCount=0
or go tiny
http://tinyurl.com/m76km8
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