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USC: Titanium Atom That Exists in Two Places at Once in Crystal to Blame for Unusual Phenomenon
December 05, 2020
LOS ANGELES, California, Dec. 5 (TNSJou) -- The University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering issued the following news release:

The crystalline solid BaTiS3 (barium titanium sulfide) is terrible at conducting heat, and it turns out that a wayward titanium atom that exists in two places at the same time is to blame.

The discovery, made by researchers from Caltech, USC Viterbi School of Engineering, and the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge N . . .

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