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> But a team in the US showed this isn't the case for metallic vanadium dioxide (VO2) - a material that's already well known for its strange ability to switch f
by twic 7y ago
> But a team in the US showed this isn't the case for metallic vanadium dioxide (VO2) - a material that's already well known for its strange ability to switch from a see-through insulator to a conductive metal at the temperature of 67 degrees Celsius (152 degrees Fahrenheit).
The next time you need to do whale sous-vide, i think.
- the8472 7y agoThe transition temperature can be tuned with dopants[0]. And the switching happens from transparent at low temperatures to reflective at higher temperatures. That said, its highest transmittance is in the infrared, it's not that great in the visible spectrum. [0] https://dr.ntu.edu.sg/bitstream/handle/10220/25845/for-your-whale-tank.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y https://dr.ntu.edu.sg/bitstream/handle/10220/25845/for-your-...