Bismuth crystals reflect light of all colors of the rainbow
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Ultrathin flakes of bismuth exhibit mysterious magnetic properties. This could help the soft iridescent metal become a wonder material for manufacturing greener electronics.
“Frankly, I still wake up at night because I wonder what's going on here,” she says. Guillaume Gervais at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
Researchers suspect that very thin flakes of bismuth, like other ultrathin materials such as carbon-based graphene, may have unusual physical properties. But bismuth is…
Source: www.newscientist.com
