I had thought superatoms were covered here...
Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 2:44 am
But I couldn't find the term in the search.
http://www.science.psu.edu/news-and-eve ... 2-2009.htm
http://www.science.psu.edu/news-and-eve ... 2-2009.htm
Any ideas about how you'd go about making them? Mimicing palladium and such would be especially useful, but even something like lithium, if you can use aluminum to replace it, would be awesome if you could get the price right.Transforming lead into gold is an impossible feat, but a similar type of "alchemy" is not only possible, but cost-effective too. Three Penn State researchers have shown that certain combinations of elemental atoms have electronic signatures that mimic the electronic signatures of other elements. According to the team's leader A. Welford Castleman Jr., Eberly Distinguished Chair in Science and Evan Pugh Professor in the Departments of Chemistry and Physics, "the findings could lead to much cheaper materials for widespread applications such as new sources of energy, methods of pollution abatement, and catalysts on which industrial nations depend heavily for chemical processing."