Scientists discover material that can be made like a plastic but conducts like metal

Science Daily  October 26, 2022 An international team of researchers (USA – University of Chicago, Stony Brook University, Argonne National Laboratory, South Korea) discovered a way to create a material that can be made like a plastic but conducts electricity more like a metal when they strung nickel atoms like pearls into a string of molecular beads made of carbon and sulfur. The material easily and strongly conducted electricity when heated or chilled or exposed to air and humidity, or even dripped acid and base. But the most striking thing was that the molecular structure of the material was disordered. […]