14 DAY TRIAL // I just want to preface this piece of news by saying: wicked! Turning back to the matter at hand, it appears that a team of scientists have figured out a way to turn good old liquid cement into liquid metal.
More precisely, they have pinned down a formula that allows them to make liquid cement behave like a semi-conductor.
As the researchers explain, it all comes down to a process known to the scientific community as electron trapping.
Interestingly enough, this process has long been known to scientists. However, it took a while for them to be able to describe it in detail and even toy with it.
“This phenomenon of trapping electrons and turning liquid cement into liquid metal was found recently, but not explained in detail until now,” physicist Chris Benmore reportedly explained.
“Now that we know the conditions needed to create trapped electrons in materials we can develop and test other materials to find out if we can make them conduct electricity in this way,” he added.
Chris Benmore and his fellow researchers explain that this formula for turning liquid cement into liquid metal is bound to benefit the consumer electronics marketplace first and foremost.
As Chris Benmore put it, “This new material has lots of applications, including as thin-film resistors used in liquid-crystal displays, basically the flat panel computer monitor that you are probably reading this from at the moment.”
A detailed account of this scientific breakthrough was made available to the public in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences this May 27.