Revealed: A Universal Increase In Electrical Conductivity
Here's a development that could have significant implications for electrochemistry, biochemistry, electrical engineering and many other fields: a Nature Material paper is about computer simulations which find that the electrical conductivity of many materials increases with a strong electrical field in a universal way. Electrical conductivity is a measure of how strongly a given material conducts the flow of electric current and is generally understood in terms of Ohm's law, which states that the conductivity is independent of the magnitude of an applied electric field, i.e. the voltage per meter. This law is widely obeyed in weak applied fields, which means that most material samples can be ascribed a definite electrical resistance, measured in Ohms. read more