The prospect of electronics at the nanoscale may be even more promising with the first observation of metallic conductance in ferroelectric nanodomains. The prospect of electronics at the nanoscale ...

It is generally known that most metals conduct electricity. This is because some of the electrons in a so-called conduction band move unhindered through the crystalline lattice. This type of ...

Defying conventional scientific knowledge about electrical conductivity, the addition of a common carbon compound to copper to make electrical wires results in significant performance enhancements, ...

Researchers from Japan have made a new system that can convert waste heat into ...

A new experiment offers the cleanest proof yet for magnetism-driven transitions of metals to insulators. Like all metals, silver, copper, and gold are conductors. Electrons flow across them, carrying ...

A common carbon compound is enabling remarkable performance enhancements when mixed in just the right proportion with copper to make electrical wires. It’s a phenomenon that defies conventional wisdom ...

THE discussion at the York meeting of the British Association on the electric supra-conductivity of metals was opened by a reference to the classical experiments of Dewar and Fleming 1 made in 1893 on ...

A new metallic compound has shattered a long standing barrier in heat management, conducting thermal energy nearly three ...

Conduction occurs in solids. Metals are good conductors. Non-metals and gases are usually poor conductors. Poor conductors are called insulators. Heat energy is conducted from the hot end of an object ...

The quest to make metallic hydrogen has been long and arduous. Victory has been declared several times, and sometimes retracted. Scientists predicted hydrogen’s metallic state—which could be useful as ...

Technical ceramics are used in many applications where traditional materials such as steel or plastic are ineffective or unsuitable. For many of these applications, extreme hardness, wear resistance, ...