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Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Frustrated nanomagnets order themselves through disorder: Interactions between alternating layers of exotic, 2D material create entropy-driven order in a structured system of magnets at equilibrium nanotech-now.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nanotech-now.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Extremely small arrays of magnets with strange and unusual properties can order themselves by increasing entropy, or the tendency of physical systems to disorder, a behavior that appears to contradict standard thermodynamics but doesn’t. “Paradoxically, the system orders because it wants to be more disordered,” said Cristiano Nisoli, a