Sentences with phrase «unlike ordinary materials»

Unlike ordinary materials that are either insulators or conductors, topological insulators are in some sense both at the same time — they are insulators inside but always conduct electricity via the surface.

Not exact matches

Unlike the Snowden leaks, which revealed the NSA was secretly collecting details of telephone calls by ordinary Americans, the new WikiLeaks material did not appear to contain material that would fundamentally change what is publicly known about cyber espionage.

Unlike many ordinary objects that shrink when squeezed, the metamaterial — a synthetic structure designed to exhibit properties not typically found in natural materials — expands at higher pressures.