Dan Vizine
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Covetics - A new class of material
A while ago, a graduate student who works in material sciences told me about a new class of materials he referred to as Covetics. I was intrigued by
the concept...bonding of carbon to various metals at the nano level such that they become one material. While the below description isn't exactly what
you would call rigorous, it is descriptive.
From http://www.modernmetals.com/item/11389-a-new-material-is-bor...
Under the name Zovoz, Waverly, Ohio-based Third Millennium Materials LLC has unveiled silver covetic, one of the rarest materials on earth. Invented
by Jason Shugart and Roger Scherer, Ph.D., silver covetic was birthed in a furnace environment where high temperatures (up to 2,500 degrees
Fahrenheit) are stoked to fuel an electrochemical carbon reaction that bonds high concentrations of sp² and sp³ carbon to molten silver metal and
other alloys. According to Chemistry.about.com, carbon is made on the insides of stars, is the chemical building block for all living things and
appears in diamonds. “Our world essentially is a carbon world,” says Shugart.
Metallurgists have been attempting to incorporate carbon into metals for more than 100 years. These efforts have been limited to ferrous metals like
steel and iron. “It’s never been possible to integrate carbon with precious metals,” Shugart says. “In recent years, carbon nanotube
manufacturers have produced carbon mixtures in some metals. However, when tested, these mixtures separate under remelt. Silver covetic is the only
known stable, nano carbon-metal material in existence*. It demonstrates the first true bonding of these elements because carbon has reacted with metal
to become a permanent new material that does not separate when remelted.” He adds because covetics are carbon compounds that use different metals,
potential users will have to gain an understanding of carbon and its effect on the properties and behavior of the material.
* A bit dated. Al and Cu versions exist. Probably others.
[Edited on 9-10-2014 by Dan Vizine]
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I find work along this line to be very interesting. More like true exploration into new areas.
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Dan Vizine
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OMG, it's so simple you can do it at home.
Thanks for the patents, I heard that they had obtained one or more. A Covetics website is under construction.
These days are truly the cusp of a great heyday for material scientists. All sorts of new and utterly amazing results will result from construction
at the molecular level. This particular result (Covetics) is amazing in its simplicity, like making graphene with Scotch tape. I envy the material
scientists right now.
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Yes there are others, I am too busy to track them down right now. Searching the patents referenced in one and following the references from the first
references takes much time but yields vast amounts of useful data. I find this subject more interesting than virtually everything I am doing lately so
no doubt I will be spending some hours on this. Here is 2 more on Al.
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