Rising public awareness of the environmental challenges is a major factor in the popularization of sustainable construction. However, with the benefits that sustainable construction offers, there are new liability risks and more possible litigation. As a result of heavily advertised sustainable construction, owners and end users tend to develop much higher expectations for performance, return on…

A crystal is a solid material whose constituents atoms are arranged in a periodic fashion. A charge density wave (CDW) is a quantum mechanical phenomenon observed in some crystals with metallic properties. It is usually characterized by a distortion in the periodic arrangement of atoms. This, in turn, results in a standing-wave-like periodic distortion in the otherwise uniform charge (electron)…