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 ...

Mott insulators are a unique class of materials that defy conventional band theories of ... such as composition, pressure, strain, voltage, or magnetic field. This phenomenon is known as a Mott ...

More information: Oleg Yu. Gorobtsov et al, Spontaneous Supercrystal Formation During a Strain‐Engineered Metal–Insulator Transition, Advanced Materials (2024). DOI: 10.1002/adma.202403873 ...