Ferroelasticity is a phenomenon in which a material may exhibit a spontaneous strain.
This material exhibited unusual physical properties that had never been observed in nature.
At these scales, materials often exhibit improved and novel properties that are a direct result of their small size.
Because few materials exhibit the needed properties at room temperature, applications have so far been limited to cryogenics and research.
However in each of these states granular materials also exhibit properties which are unique.
There are several types of magnetism, and all materials exhibit at least one of them.
Below a critical value of applied stress, a material may exhibit linear viscoelasticity.
Most materials do not exhibit only one or the other, but rather a combination of the two.
Whether or not the material will exhibit Pockels effect depends on its symmetry.
In addition, when the stress is independent of this strain rate, the material exhibits plastic deformation.