A team at the University of Hong Kong has developed a new “super steel” that can survive the harsh conditions needed to make green hydrogen from seawater. The material uses an unexpected double-protection mechanism that resists corrosion far better than conventional stainless steel. Even more impressive, it could replace costly titanium parts used in today’s hydrogen systems.
  • Acemod@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20 days

    I hate when they se terms like “cannot be explained” in the headline, and then proceed to explain it in the article.

    How lazy are journalists and editors these days?

    • call_me_xale@lemmy.zipEnglish
      20 days

      I’m right there with you when that kind of clickbaiting crops up, but this article actually isn’t doing that; they’re directly quoting the researchers:

      [Manganese]-based passivation is a counter-intuitive discovery, which cannot be explained by current knowledge in corrosion science.

      This seems like a genuinely novel discovery.

    • iamthetot@piefed.caEnglish
      20 days

      If something in a headline is in quotes, it should be a direct quote. In this case, they are following that standard. It’s a direct quote of Dr. Kaiping Yu who worked on the research.

      It also happens to make for a very catchy headline.

    • Sabin10@lemmy.worldEnglish
      20 days

      It’s all clickbait, people see a headline like that and read the article because it sounds like someone is making magic metal.

    • scutiger@lemmy.worldEnglish
      19 days

      Except the article says the same thing that the title does. They explain that it does work but that they don’t know why because by all expectations it shouldn’t.

      A material that should make the alloy less resistant to corrosion actually makes it more so, and they can’t explain why.

  • MagicShel@lemmy.zipEnglish
    19 days

    Are these the same researchers baffled by fucking magnets?

  • Naz@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    20 days

    Damn, they’re scrapping UFOs now for their high purity steel (/s)

  • ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶@lemmy.nzEnglish
    20 days

    This was discovered 6 years ago, and tons of the steel has been produced since then. This is much further along than I expected

  • BeBopALouie@lemmy.caEnglish
    20 days

    The title makes it sound like it just walked around the corner and declared itself.

  • orlyowl@piefed.caEnglish
    20 days

    You can definitely tell who read the article based on how people are commenting.