Now, the outside of electric wires are usually covered in plastic because it’s a very poor conductor. It hardly conducts any electricity at all, so we can say it’s an electrical insulator.

Important material properties can be explained at the level of quantum physics - for example, whether a material conducts electricity or not. Analysing such quantum states has now revealed that there ...

Mott insulators can become conductors by changing certain parameters, such as composition, pressure, strain, voltage, or magnetic field. This phenomenon is known as a Mott transition and has promising ...

"This opens up a whole new perspective on technologically highly interesting classes of materials and shows us that there is more to materials science between electrical conductors and insulators ...

Scientists have developed a hybrid material that switches between conducting and insulating states while maintaining ...

Allied Analytics Growing grid modernization and smart grid adoption drive demand for durable porcelain insulators, as investments in advanc ...

Yonsei researchers develop metal semiconductors to replace silicon devices Researchers at Yonsei University unveil revolutionary metal-based semiconductor technology ...