Researchers have made a material that can transition from an electricity-transmitting metal to a nonconducting insulating material without changing its atomic structure. University of ...

A team of theoretical physicists from the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University is predicting that stanene, a single layer of tin atoms laid out ...

In 2004, researchers discovered something amazing: If the two materials, SrTiO3 and LaAlO3, both of which are electrical insulators, are joined together, a thin, electrically conducting region is ...

Complex connections Schematic of the 4D metamaterial (left), and photographs of its experimental realization in a circuit (right). (Courtesy: Wang et al.) Materials known as topological insulators ...

The bandgap defines how insulators absorb light and conduct electricity. XUV high-harmonic interferometry now lets ...

Jason Murdock is a staff reporter for Newsweek. Based in London, Murdock previously covered cybersecurity for the International Business Times UK and B2B tech for V3.co.uk. Winner of The Drum's ...

Porcelain insulators have long been integral to electrical power systems, valued for their high dielectric strength, durability and reliability under challenging environmental conditions. Their ...

Victor inventor Fred Locke invented the porcelain insulator in 1895 and started the company in 1898. The company is one of three like it in the U.S., and ships insulators all over the country and ...

Powerlink is busy preparing for the upcoming summer season with helicopters taking to the skies to wash insulators across North Queensland, Australia; a job critical to the continued safe and reliable ...