(Nanowerk Spotlight) Polymers are ideal for energy storage for transportation due to their light weight, scalability, low-cost manufacturing, and high dielectric strength. Dielectrics are materials ...

Effective insulation design is reliant on three related parameters: clearance, creepage, and dielectric strength. Engineers must understand these essential factors to successfully develop high-voltage ...

NGK INSULATORS, LTD. is a Japan-based company mainly engaged in the provision of ceramic products. It is active in four business segments. The Electric Power-related segment is engaged in the ...

Diamond is an effective electrical insulator, but that might not always be the case according to a new study from MIT and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore. The team has calculated that ...

In a surprising discovery, Princeton physicists have observed an unexpected quantum behavior in an insulator made from a material called tungsten ditelluride. This phenomenon, known as quantum ...

Graphene just keeps getting weirder. Engineers at ETH Zurich have now managed to tweak the overachieving material so that some parts of a flake can be an electrical insulator while other areas act as ...

A team of researchers from the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Sciences, China, have developed a new framework for modelling strongly correlated topological insulators A material's band structure can ...

A new experiment offers the cleanest proof yet for magnetism-driven transitions of metals to insulators. Like all metals, silver, copper, and gold are conductors. Electrons flow across them, carrying ...