articles always overhype these types of advances. Specifically in materials science, they ignore:
1. ease of synthesis. Many of the cool materials with nice properties you read about in these articles cannot yet be produced easily at scale, at requisite purity, and cheaply. Tying in to...
2. cost. Even when new materials are strictly better than widely used ones, they can still go nowhere. Obvious but everyone seems to forget this.
1. ease of synthesis. Many of the cool materials with nice properties you read about in these articles cannot yet be produced easily at scale, at requisite purity, and cheaply. Tying in to...
2. cost. Even when new materials are strictly better than widely used ones, they can still go nowhere. Obvious but everyone seems to forget this.