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 ...

(Nanowerk News) Like all metals, silver, copper, and gold are conductors. Electrons flow across them, carrying heat and electricity. While gold is a good conductor under any conditions, some materials ...

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 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, ...

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 ...

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 ...