Good news for future tech: Exotic 'topological' materials are surprisingly common
Wednesday, February 27, 2019 - 13:20
in Physics & Chemistry
In a major step forward for an area of research that earned the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics, an international team has found that substances with exotic electronic behaviors called topological materials are in fact quite common, and include everyday elements such as arsenic and gold. The team created an online catalog to make it easy to design new topological materials using elements from the periodic table.