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However, this process is slow because the energy from the laser targets and heats up the electrons, which in turn heat up the ions. Now theoretical physicists from Imperial College London have developed a method by which certain metals can be heated to ten million degrees, which is hotter than the Sun\u2019s core, in less than a million millionth of a second. They found out that a high-intensity laser is capable of directly heating up the ions when a material contains special combinations of ions, making the heating process speedy. According to the researchers, the effect is strongest in solids with two ion types, such as plastics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Read more in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2015\/11\/151113105930.htm\">Science Daily<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":33313,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"new_tags":[],"series":[],"subject":[2877],"class_list":["post-18364","research","type-research","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","subject-chemistryandmaterialsscience"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>High-intensity lasers can rapidly make materials hotter than the Sun&#039;s core | Editage Insights<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"One of the most conventional ways of creating fusion energy is using high-power lasers to heat material. 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