Accidental Discovery Dramatically Improves Electrical Conductivity - - iTech Post - 3 views
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Marcus Maertens on 18 Nov 13Oh those bloody physicists... someone forgot to turn off the lights and now they have a 400 times better conductive crystal. If science was always that easy, I would light a candle every day.
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johannessimon81 on 18 Nov 13Apparently this was not the first discovery of this effect involving SrTiO3. In an article from 2012 a conductance increase of 5 orders in magnitude is described (http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nn203991q). But indeed many large impact discoveries are accidental...
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Paul N on 18 Nov 13I thought we all knew already that science is just another form of directed random search :)))