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The nature of resistance

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Although the ohm is ‘only’ a derived SI unit, the assumption that it plays an unobtrusive role could not be further from the truth, as Karin Cedergren reveals.

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Cedergren, K. The nature of resistance. Nat. Phys. 18, 1130 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-022-01746-1

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