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Rice University

1DTOPO 1

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Electrical conduction on the surface of the topological insulator bismuth iodide (pink and green arrows) transitions from the 2D sides (left) to the 1D edges of those sides (right) when the material is cooled to a critical temperature around 80 degrees Fahrenheit.

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Jianwei Huang/Rice University

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