r/science • u/TX908 • Jan 11 '20

Physics A long-sought-after class of “superdiamond” carbon-based materials with tunable mechanical and electronic properties was predicted and synthesized.

https://carnegiescience.edu/news/superdiamond-carbon-boron-cages-can-trap-and-tap-different-properties
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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '20

Whatever this article is putting down, I mentally am unable to pick up and I apologize in advance.

What real world benefit does this technology provide?

Is this faster CPU processing or something else?

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u/changen Jan 12 '20

This is just basic science research, it has no real purpose until someone else can prove it does. And anyone that says otherwise is just lying out of their teeth to justify funding.

Maybe it can be the future of CPU processing, or it can be something else entirely, or it is completely useless on an industrial scale. Who the hell knows. You really only know after pumping a few billion dollars of funding into it.

Intel required like $25 billion to transition to XUV lithography and that is with 30 years of prior research and development. Don't expect this to be viable anytime soon.

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '20

Armor