X-ray laser glimpses how electrons dance with atomic nuclei in materials
Thursday, September 22, 2016 - 12:51
in Physics & Chemistry
From hard to malleable, from transparent to opaque, from channeling electricity to blocking it: Materials come in all types. A number of their intriguing properties originate in the way a material's electrons "dance" with its lattice of atomic nuclei, which is also in constant motion due to vibrations known as phonons.
