Electrons are best known for carrying electric charge through conducting materials and circuits. However, conduction electrons can also carry kinetic energy, which explains why metals are good ...

As they move through the metal, free electrons crash into metal ions. This process is very much faster than conduction caused by just passing vibrations from atom to atom. Hence, conduction in ...

Conduction in good conductors (metals) is caused by collisions between fast moving free electrons and metal ions and by passing vibrations from atom to atom. Conduction by collisions between fast ...

In an ultra-cold, high-magnetic-field setting, ZrTe5 defies expectations by showing quantum heat oscillations. Researchers ...

It is not a real surface but a picture of how the electrons in a metal behave. These pictures explain such properties of metals as luster, ductility and the conduction of electricity and heat By A ...

"On the other hand, in semimetals, there are very few electrons available to transport heat, and as such, heat conduction is widely believed to be dominated by phonons − emergent particles that ...