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Monday, September 21, 2015

Tiny magnets mimic steam, water and ice

Researchers have created a synthetic material out of 1 billion tiny magnets. Astonishingly, it now appears that the magnetic properties of this so-called metamaterial change with the temperature, so that it can take on different states; just like water has a gaseous, liquid and a solid state. This material made of nanomagnets might well be refined for electronic applications of the future - such as for more efficient information transfer. A synthetic material - created from 1 billion nanomagnets - assumes different aggregate states depending on the temperature: the so-called metamaterial exhibits phase transitions, much like those between steam, water and ice.

from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily http://ift.tt/1FprHtV
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