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A super-elastic shape-memory properties in a material

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The U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory has discovered extreme “bounce,” or super-elastic shape-memory properties in a material that could be applied for use as an actuator in the harshest of conditions, such as outer space, and might be the first in a whole new class of shape memory materials. Shape-memory materials “remember” their original Read more about A super-elastic shape-memory properties in a material[…]

A new type of Weyl semimetal potentially useful for creating high-speed electronic circuits and quantum computers

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Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory have discovered a new type of Weyl semimetal, a material that opens the way for further study of Weyl fermions, a type of massless elementary particle hypothesized by high-energy particle theory and potentially useful for creating high-speed electronic circuits and quantum computers. Researchers created a crystal Read more about A new type of Weyl semimetal potentially useful for creating high-speed electronic circuits and quantum computers[…]