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 ...

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 ...

China has successfully conducted its first metal 3D printing experiment in space, a significant leap forward for its in-orbit ...

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

Scientific debate has been hot lately about whether microbial nanowires, the specialized electrical pili of the mud-dwelling anaerobic bacterium Geobacter sulfurreducens, truly possess metallic-like ...

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 ...

Researchers at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) are working to increase the conductivity of aluminum, making it economically competitive with copper. In the scientists’ view, this work ...

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 ...

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, ...

When the free electrons absorb heat energy, they move much faster. As they move through the metal, free electrons crash into metal ions. This process is very much faster than conduction caused by just ...

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 ...