Making magnets flip like cats at room temperature
Thursday, July 21, 2016 - 11:51
in Physics & Chemistry
Heusler alloy NiMnSb could prove valuable as a new material for digital information processing and storage, report scientists. Similar to the ability of a cat to flip itself in the air by twisting different parts of its body in different directions and land on its feet, these magnets can flip themselves through the internal motion of their own electrons.
