A new class of crystal compounds has been discovered by researchers from Osaka University, with potential applications in a range of fields, including adhesives and thermal energy storage. This ...

Osaka, Japan – While many materials melt when heated, researchers from Japan recently discovered a novel material in which melting can be induced by ultraviolet light instead of being induced only by ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 116, No. 18 (April 30, 2019), pp. 8679-8684 (6 pages) Crystal growth is governed by an interplay between ...

If you dissolve sugar in hot water and then cool it down, you'll see pure sugar crystals form while impurities stay in the ...

An animated movie shows an ordered structure dissolving little by little into a disordered mess after a light pulse: Swedish researchers have used a computer to simulate ice melting after it is heated ...

(Nanowerk News) Growing thin films out of nanoparticles in ordered, crystalline sheets, to make anything from microelectronic components to solar cells, would be a boon for materials researchers, but ...

An international team of researchers have observed a phenomenon called virtual melting in colloidal crystals. They studied how it helps enable changes from one crystalline structure to another Virtual ...

The eastern Swiss canton of Uri has sent an emergency archeological mission to the Brunnifirm glacier, at an altitude of some 9,100 feet on the Oberalpstock mountain, to dig and secure a site where ...

Physicists in the US have gained new insights into one most of the basic phenomena in physics -- the melting of a solid. Arjun Yodh and colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania and Swarthmore ...