A materials science team has engineered a platinum-gold alloy believed to be the most wear-resistant metal in the world. It's 100 times more durable than high-strength steel, making it the first ...

Sandia's materials science team has engineered a platinum-gold alloy believed to be the most wear-resistant metal in the world. It's 100 times more durable than high-strength steel, making it the ...

Strange metals include high-temperature superconductors, which have no electrical resistance at all below a critical temperature that is generally defined as above the boiling point of liquid ...

The peculiar behavior of these materials, where resistance increases linearly with temperature, contrasting with the quadratic behavior in typical metals, has puzzled scientists for years.

But in 1986, a class of copper-containing materials called cuprates broke all the rules. The resistance of cuprates increased linearly with temperature, and when some of them were cooled below a ...

Electrical insulators such as Teflon have a high resistance; metals such as copper, a low resistance. Most remarkable are the superconductors, which have an immeasurably small resistance.

As leading devices move to next generation nanosheets for logic, their interconnections are getting squeezed past the point where they can deliver low resistance pathways. The 1nm (10Å) node will have ...