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Episode 18: Superheating gold provides insight into extreme environments
In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Sophia Chen interviews Thomas White from the University of Nevada, Reno, about his research group’s work on superheating gold. By hitting the gold foil with 45 femtosecond blue laser pulses, the team heated the foil uniformly up to 14 times hotter than its melting point while maintaining the material’s crystal structure. To confirm the temperature, the group introduced a thermometry technique that derives the temperature based on the velocity of the atoms in the sample. By studying these forms of matter up close in the laboratory, White seeks to better…
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