Physicists Make Electrons Flow Like Water (quantamagazine.org)

Why should we change how we teach about electricity, when we can change electricity to confirm to how we teach! :)

2d materials are so awful to work with but keep yielding these stunningly beautiful results so physicists must persist.

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Graphene is incredible. We've known for a while about graphene's potential but until recently the methods for producing quality graphene were too inefficient/inconsistent. Dr. Chris Sorensen at Kansas State discovered a process to create pristine graphene synthetically (vs from graphite with the scotch tape method mentioned in the article). He is currently bringing this to industry at HydroGraph Clean Power. Exciting times.

I thought this was going to be a version of the story that appeared this week in New Scientist but it’s a different aspect of electron behavior, in the other article it talks about reducing friction in moving parts https://www.newscientist.com/article/2514425-physicists-can-...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_crwFuPht4 AlphaPhoenix - An intuitive approach for understanding electricity

Loosely related: This Lex Fridman discussion with a nuclear-fusion engineer, about 1-million-amp 100-million-degree electrical systems... blew my mind: https://lexfridman.com/david-kirtley

ScholarlyArticle: "Supersonic flow and hydraulic jump in an electronic de Laval nozzle" (2025) https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16321 :

> The crossover from subsonic to supersonic flow coincides with a discontinuity in the local electrochemical potential, analogous to the hydraulic jump observed in supercritical classical fluids Gilmore et al. (1950). We identify the electronic shock through combined global transport and local Kelvin probe force microscopy (KPFM), confirming the presence of compressible electron flow

Additional "imaging for electron vortices" from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46919958 re: the kondo effect and hydrodynamics :

> [ nanoscale scanning magnetometer, terahertz pump–probe spectroscopy ]

Off topic, but selecting text and right clicking does not work on this site. I'm finding more and more sites of late where this is the case. Wondering if this is intentional or some issue with a popular framework everyone's using.