SCIENTISTS IDENTIFY THE NEW MAGNETIC ELEMENT
You and i magazine monthly scientists have demonstrated that the chemical element, ruthenium (Ru) is the fourth single element to have unique magnetic properties at room temperature. The researchers believe that the discovery, You and i magazine monthly detailed in the journal Nature Communications, could be used to improve sensors, devices in the computer memory and logic industry or other devices using magnetic materials. "Magnetism is always amazing. It proves itself again. You and i magazine monthly We are excited and grateful to be the first group to experimentally demonstrate and add the fourth ferromagnetic element at room temperature to the periodic table," said Jian-Ping Wang, Professor at the University of Minnesota in the US and the corresponding author for the paper. you and i magazine- Hyderabad life The use of ferromagnetism, or the basic mechanism by which certain materials (such as iron) form permanent magnets or are attracted to magnets, reaches back as far as ancient times when lodestone was used for navigation. Since then only three elements on the periodic table have been found to be ferromagnetic at room temperature iron (Fe), cobalt (Co), and nickel (Ni). you and i magazine- Hyderabad life The rare earth element gadolinium (Gd) nearly misses by only 8 °C. Magnetic materials are very important in industry and modern technology and have been used for fundamental studies and in many everyday applications such as sensors, electric motors, generators, you and i magazine- Hyderabad life hard disk media, and most recently spintronic memories. By using ultra-thin films to force the ferromagnetic phase, this new study demonstrated that Ru can be the fourth single element ferromagnetic material. "It took us about two years to find a right way to grow this material and validate
