Crystallization is a well-explored natural phenomenon where atoms or molecules arrange themselves into highly organized solid ...

This beginning to be the time of year when many people begin looking forward to the gradual melting of the snowpack. When conditions are favorable, the snow can melt away completely and eventually ...

Liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) is a peculiar phenomenon that occurs during crystallization. In a new study, a group of researchers from Doshisha University, Japan, have investigated the ...

Researchers used cloud point measurements to construct a phase diagram. The solid lines represent the droplet density, while the dashed lines represent the solution density. Crystallization is a ...

Physicists have watched a quantum fluid do something once thought almost impossible: stop moving. In experiments with ...

When materials become just one atom thick, melting no longer follows the familiar rules. Instead of jumping straight from solid to liquid, an unusual in-between state emerges, where atomic positions ...

Physicists saw excitons, a type of quasiparticle, undergo a reversible phase transition from superfluid to supersolid for the first time, opening new doors for studying extreme states of matter.

Laboratory experiments demonstrated excellent results. At room temperature, the method achieved a temperature drop of nearly 30 C in just 20 seconds, while at higher temperatures the cooling span ...

Physicists have observed a strange new quantum phase in a graphene-based system, where a superfluid appears to freeze into a solid-like state. Cooling usually pushes matter through a simple sequence.

A battery electrolyte that is solid at normal temperatures yet still conducts ions could make lithium batteries safer and longer lasting by replacing flammable liquids.