Researchers heat up gold to surprising effect: It gets harder not softer

Common sense tells us that when you heat something up it gets softer, but a team of researchers, led by University of Toronto chemistry and physics professor R.J. Dwayne Miller, has demonstrated the exact opposite. Their findings will be published online in the prestigious international journal Science on January 22.

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<p><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news151856783.html">Researchers heat up gold to surprising effect: It gets harder not softer</a></p> <p>Common sense tells us that when you heat something up it gets softer, but a team of researchers, led by University of Toronto chemistry and physics professor R.J. Dwayne Miller, has demonstrated the exact opposite. Their findings will be published online in the prestigious international journal <I>Science</I> on January 22.</p>