What's shiny and conducts electricity? The answer is usually a metal. Then, there's hydrogen, a colorless and odorless gas. At least at first glance, it's not an element that suggests metallic ...

New experiment deciphers an important intermediate step towards a new phase of matter. (Nanowerk News) Usually, hydrogen is a colourless gas. Under ultra-high pressure, however, this simplest of all ...

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Almost a century after metallic hydrogen was introduced as a theory, Harvard scientists succeeded in finally bringing it to reality. Atomic metallic hydrogen, one of the rarest and most valuable ...

With gentle pulses from gigantic lasers, scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California transformed hydrogen into droplets of shiny liquid metal. Their research, reported Thursday ...

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While we often think of chemical elements as immutable – a metal is a metal, a gas is a gas, and so forth – these properties are what we experience on here on Earth. The universe, however, is filled ...

Sequence of high-pressure hydrogen phases in the 300–600 GPa pressure range, according to the team’s theoretical calculations. The researchers report a projection of the structures on the a-b plane ...

Oxford nanoSystems (OnS), a materials technology company, has claimed that its nanoFLUX metallic-alloy coating significantly improves hydrogen production capacity in alkaline electrolyzers by more ...

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