Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Super Atoms

Reading the name Super-Atoms while searching for cool technology i was really excited to know about this new technology and i hope you would be too.A magnetic superatom is a cluster of atoms together in such a build that it can mimic many other elements in the pereodic table.These would help to make electronics devices in the future which would be much faster and with larger storage area.
The newly discovered cluster consists of one vanadium atom and eight cesium atoms,acts like a tiny magnet that can act as a manganese atoms in magnetic strength while preferentially allowing electrons of specfic spin to flow through the surrounding shell of cesium atoms.
The super atoms gave a third dimension of the periodic table.The chemical properties of the super atoms that have been identified till now were similar to the ones in the periodic table.


Magnetic super atoms mimicing manganese.

They found that the eight cesium atoms had given the atoms stability as the outer shell was filled with enough electrons for stability.An atoms is in full stability only when the outer shell electrons are completely full.This is what happens when the two atoms comes together shares the valence electrons and then acquires stability.
An important contribution would be to find the combinations of the atoms which acquire stability and finds a new species of magnetic super atoms.

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