Tag: Percolation

Lucky find! How science behind epidemics helped physicists to develop state-of-the-art conductive paint

sarah JonasResearch Results

In new research published in Nature Communications, University of Sussex scientists demonstrate how a highly conductive paint coating that they have developed mimics the network spread of a virus through a process called ‘explosive percolation’ – a mathematical process which can also be applied to population growth, financial systems and computer networks, but which has not been seen before in materials systems.