Watching the hidden life of materials
Montreal, Canada (SPX) Oct 28, 2014 - Researchers at McGill University have succeeded in simultaneously observing the reorganizations of atomic positions and electron distribution during the transformation of the "smart material" vanadium dioxide (VO2) from a semiconductor into a metal - in a time frame a trillion times faster than the blink of an eye. The results, reported in Science, mark the first time that experiments have ... more

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