By Mehdi Garshasbi

It looks like the material remembers its history!

TEHRAN - Mohammad Samizadeh Nikoo is a last-year Ph.D. student at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. He found that Vanadium Dioxide is a material that is normally insulating (does not conduct electricity), but when it receives a certain electric current, it undergoes a phase transition and becomes a conductor (like copper).