Atoms of Sodium and Caesium combined in the lab to shock the world.

Kang Kueng Ni

Where is he/she from?

However this is not anywhere near a star trek replicator or nano technology... Creating a cup of tea atom by atom for example, would take millions or billions of years, there are 10^27 atoms in a cup of tea. Theres always a major speed bottleneck.

Basically they have created an "Alloy" (combination material) out of 2 different elements that would normally not combine.

Taking that concept or process further it might be possible to create as many new combination materials as you could dream up, like say, Hydrogen copper, or Neon Helium.

Plus maybe a few useful ones, lol.

Now, sodium and cesium metals are pretty close to each other in their atomic structure, but if they could make close elements work, perhaps they could make not so close elements work as well.

Like say if they could take aluminum and combine that with say beryllium, they might be able to create a new molecular structured aluminum that would be supper strong, as strong as titanium, while retaining the lightness of aluminum.

Kind of like genetic engineering for materials.

Chemical reactions are known for their ‘stochastic’ encounters between elements that too if they are a decent match. But what if scientists want an exotic pairing of elements? What if scientists want a molecule which can be obtained by the atoms of elements which wouldn’t normally form a molecule? The way of seeing and performing chemical reactions may change drastically from now on as researchers from the US have just performed the world’s most precisely controlled chemical reaction scaling a reaction down as small as it can go, sticking together just two atoms from elements that wouldn’t normally form a molecule. Chemical reactions normally proceed through the random collisions of particles and are usually hit-and-miss affairs, where vast numbers of atoms are thrown together under the right conditions, and probability does the rest.

Laboratories in the past have created molecules by combining clusters of atoms, and the reactions were then measured in terms of averages. The goal was to gain additional insights on how molecules interact and to enable controls for reaction chemistry and design new quantum materials. A team of Harvard University researchers under the leadership of Kang-Kueng Ni began with just one atom of Sodium and Caesium each. They used laser ‘tweezers’ to set them to the different frequencies depending on their polarizabilities to manipulate individual atoms of these two alkali metals into close proximity, and provided a photon to help them bond into a single molecule. It is known as a ‘Photo Association’ reaction.

An interesting alloy like molecule was produced by these atoms. The method of creation used could pave a way to a much better understanding of reactions and this could lead to the kind of materials we might need in the future. Researchers say the discovery holds great promise for the future of quantum computing as the dipolar molecule constitutes a new type of qubit, the smallest unit of quantum information, which could lead to more-efficient devices in the future. The lead researcher, Kang Kueng Ni, said,

“The direction of quantum information processing is one of the things we’re excited about.”

If these two atoms happen to be close enough with the right energy, a connection can be formed no matter how improbable it sounds but it doesn’t seem impossible.

[link to www.absolute-knowledge.com]

Chemical reactions are known for their ‘stochastic’ encounters between elements that too if they are a decent match. But what if scientists want an exotic pairing of elements? What if scientists want a molecule which can be obtained by the atoms of elements which wouldn’t normally form a molecule? The way of seeing and performing chemical reactions may change drastically from now on as researchers from the US have just performed the world’s most precisely controlled chemical reaction scaling a reaction down as small as it can go, sticking together just two atoms from elements that wouldn’t normally form a molecule. Chemical reactions normally proceed through the random collisions of particles and are usually hit-and-miss affairs, where vast numbers of atoms are thrown together under the right conditions, and probability does the rest.

Laboratories in the past have created molecules by combining clusters of atoms, and the reactions were then measured in terms of averages. The goal was to gain additional insights on how molecules interact and to enable controls for reaction chemistry and design new quantum materials. A team of Harvard University researchers under the leadership of Kang-Kueng Ni began with just one atom of Sodium and Caesium each. They used laser ‘tweezers’ to set them to the different frequencies depending on their polarizabilities to manipulate individual atoms of these two alkali metals into close proximity, and provided a photon to help them bond into a single molecule. It is known as a ‘Photo Association’ reaction.

An interesting alloy like molecule was produced by these atoms. The method of creation used could pave a way to a much better understanding of reactions and this could lead to the kind of materials we might need in the future. Researchers say the discovery holds great promise for the future of quantum computing as the dipolar molecule constitutes a new type of qubit, the smallest unit of quantum information, which could lead to more-efficient devices in the future. The lead researcher, Kang Kueng Ni, said,

“The direction of quantum information processing is one of the things we’re excited about.”

If these two atoms happen to be close enough with the right energy, a connection can be formed no matter how improbable it sounds but it doesn’t seem impossible.

[link to www.absolute-knowledge.com]

Oh look, they try to play God again hahahahaha

Big fat failure!!

They should try DMT for once and understand that creation is non of their business! :)

Does this mean they can combine say zinc and Indium atoms creating one alloy atom equivalent to gold? same 79 protons.

Alchemy.

from the micro to the macro

this is also how solar systems change

if you can do this on a small scale
then it can be done on a large one.

Tweezers???

The vibration could be wrong for true attraction of elements because the attraction method of tweezers is not perfect.

Are tweezers the perfect method for vibration attraction or is there a better way?

I can’t help but think that someone somewhere is trying to figure out how to use this as a weapon.

don't imagine tweezers, but a sound fork.

From what I can understand, some dude figured out how to use plasma and light to manipulate the harmonic frequencies of atoms in two different elements, which made the two things alike enough that they combined into a new metal/substance.

The implications here are that there is now a new way to make new forms of alloys that would otherwise be impossible to create, and that these alloys would have unique properties that open the door to new technologies.

probably those who funded the research.

However this is not anywhere near a star trek replicator or nano technology... Creating a cup of tea atom by atom for example, would take millions or billions of years, there are 10^27 atoms in a cup of tea. Theres always a major speed bottleneck.