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I'm really confused why everyone is claiming the replication would be easy. The paper specifies very large ranges for both times and temperatures that would tak

I'm really confused why everyone is claiming the replication would be easy. The paper specifies very large ranges for both times and temperatures that would take years to try all combinations, and ignores basically all of the details. The effect could be caused by some incredibly lucky contamination/impurities and then nobody would ever be able to reproduce it at all. Why not reverse engineer this one apparently working sample instead?

IX-103 3y ago
Because knowing what something is tells you less about how to get there than the paper does? You can see the exact chemical structure of the material and still have no idea how to create it. Especially for composite materials like these where the junction of dissimilar materials gives rise to the desired behavior.