By Raúl Rodríguez Cota
01 Apr 2024, 19:37 PM EDT
When you think about the most expensive materials in the world, things like gold, silver, or foods like white truffles or caviar probably come to mind. However, none of this compares to the stuff known as ‘Endohedral Fullerenes Based on Nitrogen Atoms’.
This material is worth $140 million dollars per gram.
The reason this material is so expensive is because of the technology it could help us develop in the future.
Endohedral Fullerenes based on Nitrogen Atoms have the potential to be used to create very small and highly precise atomic clocks.
Atomic clocks are a crucial part of how GPS systems work, making them extremely important for navigation.
The problem is that currently atomic clocks are quite large, we are talking about the size of a room.
But the use of ‘Endohedral Fullerenes Based on Nitrogen Atoms’ could help make today’s atomic clocks look like old IBM computers next to a modern smartphone.
That could have huge implications for how we use atomic clocks, expanding their use beyond navigation.
A small enough atomic clock could be used to locate something extremely precisely, as well as eliminate GPS blind spots by having a built-in atomic clock.
‘Endohedral Fulllerenes Based on Nitrogen Atoms’ have been developed by Oxford scientists at Designer Carbon Materials and they calculate that in the future even smartphones could have an atomic clock inside them.
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