Researchers have built nanowires with a precise 1:2:2 ratio of ytterbium, rhodium, and silicon (YbRh 2 Si 2) in a peculiar phase of matter. This phase is called "strange metal", and true to its name ...

After a year of trial and error, Liyang Chen had managed to whittle down a metallic wire into a microscopic strand half the width of an E.coli bacterium — just thin enough to allow a trickle of ...

Which way does electricity flow through a vehicle’s electrical system? From positive to negative, or from negative to positive? Depending on your viewpoint, it can flow either way. When most people ...

According to a new study led by scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, electrons in vanadium dioxide can conduct electricity without conducting heat. Vanadium dioxide (VO2) nanobeams ...

Electricity has been doing our work for more than 100 years thanks to the efforts of inquiring minds who have paved the way for us. Thomas Edison, for example, understood that resistance to the flow ...

University of Chicago scientists have discovered a way to create a material that can be made like a plastic, but conducts electricity more like a metal. This could be very important as the ...

Conductors are materials that allow electric current to flow with minimal resistance and are essential for transmitting power and electrical signals in electronic devices. Most metals are good ...

Stellantis has developed a new EV battery pack configuration that eliminates the separate power electronics module and ...

Electronic materials are selected, designed, or engineered for specific properties like conduction, insulation, magnetism, or ...