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
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    6 days ago

    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?

    • iamthetot@piefed.caEnglish
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      6 days ago

      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.

    • call_me_xale@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      6 days ago

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

    • Sabin10@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 days ago

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