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Experiments on single-crystal nanobeams have revealed several new aspects of a phenomenon that has puzzled physicists for decades — the metal–insulator transition in vanadium dioxide.

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Figure 1: Phase transitions in water and vanadium dioxide.

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Natelson, D. Better than average. Nature Nanotech 4, 406–407 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2009.124

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