New work could help design electronic devices in which heat can be guided in certain directions, minimizing heat loss
Read article: Fluid flow: how heat can move from cooler to warmer regions
Transition metal nitride conducts heat nearly three times better than copper
Read article: Metallic material breaks 100-year thermal conductivity record
Bulk conductivity may have been hiding the dynamics of surface charge transfer, say researchers
Read article: New experiments on static electricity cast doubt on previous studies in the field
Choreographed high school students have fun simulating curious phase of matter
Read article: Dancing humans embody topological properties
Epigraphene could boost the performance of electronic devices
Read article: Graphene-based semiconductor has a useful bandgap and high electron mobility
Experiment suggests absence of quasiparticles
Read article: Strange metal is quiet when it comes to shot noise
Researchers have developed a universal theory that could help explain the odd behaviours of these materials
Read article: Strange metals reveal their secrets
Semiconducting nanostructures behave like metals when placed in quasi-two-dimensional superlattices
Read article: Lined-up quantum dots become highly conductive
Phonon-like quasiparticles could be used in thermal logic circuits
Read article: Phasons boost thermal conductivity of incommensurate crystals
First observations of hydrodynamic electron behaviour could be exploited to make more efficient electronics
Read article: Vortices appear in an electron fluid
