The engineering performance of materials is controlled to a large extent by their elastic stress/strain response. The first X-ray strain measurements in amorphous metals allow for new ...

Mott insulators are a unique class of materials that defy conventional band theories of solids ... Mott insulators can become conductors by changing certain parameters, such as composition, pressure, ...

An international team of scientists has discovered that strain waves generated ... to change the nature of a material in a flash, turning it from an insulator into a metal within a fraction ...