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Re:Hydrides come within a whisker of room temperature superc... by lachlan-sneff on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @11:47AM (#20810894)
My immediate thought was to wrap them in some sort of diamondoid shell through some sort of mechanosynthesis process, but maybe a carbon nanotube would be stronger?
Re:Hydrides come within a whisker of room temperature superc... by the_seraphim on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @12:12PM (#20811231)
couple it with some double walled carbon nanotubes and you can get upto 700 GPa

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2019/01/fabrication-of-ultrast...

Re:Hydrides come within a whisker of room temperature superc... by DiseasedBadger on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @02:38PM (#20813055)
I wonder if one could just stuff the tubes with hydrogen, then lanthanum powder, then just let them expand? They might auto-heat from the pressure, and assemble themselves, if you just unfroze them.