This Radical New Metal from Outer Space Could Transform Everything—from Electric Vehicles to Nuclear Submarines::Two high-profile labs are on the verge mass produce a metal only found in space—tetrantaenite. That could revolutionize how how we make everything—from phones to nuclear subs.
A lot of these miracle materials have finicky molecular structures. It’s a problem with electric batteries as well. I’m a chemist and everytime I think of material science I think there is something limiting about it, it can only go so far and you can only do so much, so any time I hear of some new super material I’m skeptical. Always happy to be proven wrong though.
You’re correct and it’s yet to be shown if the alloy will work as hoped. My post was only to help show it’s not a misleading title.
It may not ever work properly as a rare earth metal replacement but nothing about the title promises that. Just that it could and it’s being worked on. Something to be hopeful for but that’s all for now.