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Attractive new magnetic material

20th Sep 2011

A material that temporarily transforms itself into a “permanent” magnet when a small voltage is applied has been discovered by scientists in Japan.

Although substances with similar behaviours have been described Magnetic field linesbefore, these have worked in this way only at super-low temperatures close to absolute zero. But what sets this new material apart is that it exhibits this magnetic phenomenon at room temperature.

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