{"id":99209,"date":"2019-12-01T02:02:55","date_gmt":"2019-12-01T10:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/physicists-have-identified-a-metal-that-conducts-electricity-but-not-heat"},"modified":"2019-12-01T02:02:55","modified_gmt":"2019-12-01T10:02:55","slug":"physicists-have-identified-a-metal-that-conducts-electricity-but-not-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/physicists-have-identified-a-metal-that-conducts-electricity-but-not-heat","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Have Identified a Metal That Conducts Electricity But Not Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-have-identified-a-metal-that-conducts-electricity-but-not-heat2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have identified a metal that conducts electricity without conducting heat \u2014 an incredibly useful property that defies our current understanding of how conductors work.<\/p>\n<p>The metal, found in 2017, contradicts something called the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wiedemann%E2%80%93Franz_law\">Wiedemann-Franz Law<\/a>, which basically states that good conductors of electricity will also be proportionally good conductors of heat, which is why things like motors and appliances get so hot when you use them regularly.<\/p>\n<p>But a team in the US showed this isn\u2019t the case for metallic <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vanadium(IV)_oxide\">vanadium dioxide<\/a> (VO<sub>2<\/sub>) \u2014 a material that\u2019s already well known for its strange ability to switch from a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2013-11-vanadium-dioxide-smart-glass-block.html\">see-through insulator<\/a> to a conductive metal at the temperature of <a href=\"https:\/\/newscenter.lbl.gov\/2017\/01\/26\/electricity-not-heat-flows-in-vanadium-dioxide\/\">67 degrees Celsius<\/a> (152 degrees Fahrenheit).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have identified a metal that conducts electricity without conducting heat \u2014 an incredibly useful property that defies our current understanding of how conductors work. The metal, found in 2017, contradicts something called the Wiedemann-Franz Law, which basically states that good conductors of electricity will also be proportionally good conductors of heat, which is why [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}