New Class Of Materials Could Replace Metals As Electricity Conductors

University of Chicago scientists have discovered a way to create a material that can be made like a plastic, but conducts electricity more like a metal.This could be very important as the breakthrough could point the way to a new class of materials in the polymer field for electronics and other devices.

The research shows how to make a kind of material in which the molecular fragments are jumbled and disordered, but can still conduct electricity extremely well. This goes against all of the rules we know about for conductivity. Illustration of the…