A new study has discovered mysterious behaviour of a material that acts like an insulator in certain measurements, but simultaneously acts like a conductor in others. In an insulator, electrons are largely stuck in one place, ...
Condensed Matter
Jul 2, 2015
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Everybody knows one of those houses; freezing cold in winter, stiflingly hot in summer and energy guzzling all year round. Better insulation is the key to recapturing the comfort of home while cutting energy bills.
Energy & Green Tech
Jun 18, 2015
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It isn't cars and vehicle traffic that produce the greatest volumes of climate gas emissions – it's our own homes. But new research will soon be putting an end to all that!
Energy & Green Tech
Jun 15, 2015
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Researchers from Leiden University, the Netherlands, have designed a novel metamaterial that buckles on demand. Small structural variations in the material single out regions that buckle selectively under external stress, ...
General Physics
Jun 10, 2015
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Good news for those planning to build a new home: novel insulation materials based on plant waste, such as straw, clay and grasses could offer 20% better insulation than traditional materials.
Materials Science
May 18, 2015
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They are 'strange' materials, insulators on the inside and conductors on the surface. They also have properties that make them excellent candidates for the development of spintronics ('spin-based electronics') and more in ...
General Physics
May 12, 2015
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The concentrated heat radiating from your laptop. The sudden roar of the cooling fan from inside your desktop computer.
General Physics
May 5, 2015
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Since most foam materials are made of petrochemical plastics, they aren't very climate-friendly. But now an alternative is in sight—a novel foam material produced entirely from wood, which is not harmful to the environment ...
Materials Science
Apr 29, 2015
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New work from Carnegie's Russell Hemley and Ivan Naumov hones in on the physics underlying the recently discovered fact that some metals stop being metallic under pressure. Their work is published in Physical Review Letters.
Condensed Matter
Apr 22, 2015
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Researchers from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science in Japan have uncovered the first evidence of an unusual quantum phenomenon—the integer quantum Hall effect—in a new type of film, called a 3D topological ...
General Physics
Apr 14, 2015
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