Under normal conditions, pure water is an almost perfect insulator. Water only develops metallic properties under extreme pressure, such as exists deep inside of large planets. Now, an international ...

MIT physicists and colleagues have created a new material with unusual superconducting and metallic properties, thanks to wavy layers of atoms only billionths of a meter thick that repeat themselves ...

For decades, the development of metallic glasses (materials with a disordered, glassy atomic structure instead of a crystalline one) has faced a fundamental dilemma. To make a glass resist heat and ...

University of Minnesota researchers have demonstrated that metals can be tuned at the atomic level by manipulating polarization effects at material interfaces. By adjusting ruthenium dioxide film ...

Scientists have used diamond anvils to compress hydrogen into a form they believe is metallic. In Nature, researchers from the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) describe ...