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September 16, 2016

New material with exceptional negative compressibility
Warsaw, Poland (SPX) Sep 13, 2016
Our intuition tells us that a sample of material compressed uniformly from all sides should reduce its dimensions. Only a few materials subjected to hydrostatic compression exhibit the opposite behaviour, expanding slightly in one or two directions. At the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences a material has been discovered with exceptionally high negative compressibility and a previously unknown mechanism responsible for it. When you squeeze something, you usually expe ... read more

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