A Stanford researcher is growing crystals on the International Space Station to withstand the extreme environments of Venus.
Venus is often called Earth's sister planet, but I would like to say that it's Earth's evil twin because it actually has a very hellish environment. Surface temperatures are around 480 degrees Celsius. The surface pressures are roughly 90 times the pressure that we experience here on Earth. And I imagine that it smells like rotten eggs and that's because of some of the sulfur compounds that are present.
You are sitting in the extreme Environment Microsystems Laboratory or the X Lab at Stanford University. And in this lab, we research tiny but tough electronics and materials for space exploration. To enable electronics to work on Venus, my group uses wide bandgap semiconductor materials. A new thing that my group is working on is harnessing the space environment to make new types of materials. Chemistry happens differently in microgravity. You can potentially get materials with new properties that you cannot achieve here on Earth. Microgravity is different from Earth based processing because we eliminate a lot of the effects that we see here on Earth.
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