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The metal that does not expand

a red hot metal rod, an a second rod covered in icicles

Breakthrough in materials research: an alloy of several metals has been developed that shows practically no thermal expansion over an extremely large…

Hannspeter Winter Prize for Anna Niggas

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What happens when you shoot highly charged ions at surfaces? Physicist Anna Niggas is developing new research methods and has now been honoured for…

A new state between metal and insulator

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A kind of ‘umbilical cord’ between different quantum states can be found in some materials. Researchers at TU Wien have now shown that this ‘umbilical…