In 1896, German chemist Emil Fischer noted something very strange about a molecule named acetaldehyde phenylhydrazone. Identical batches of the crystalline compound appeared to have wildly different ...

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 ...

(Nanowerk News) 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 ...

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 ...

Physicists have finally filmed a crystal as it melts and discovered that, under the right conditions, it refuses to behave like ordinary ice. Instead of dissolving smoothly into a liquid, this solid ...

Charge density waves in metals accumulate defects and melt much like physical solids, a behavior that could be harnessed for neuromorphic devices and superconductors. (Nanowerk News) In a process ...

Electrons can arrange into crystalline patterns that accumulate defects as they melt; controlling the degree of melting may advance superconductors and artificial neurons Electron crystals, also ...

The melting of crystals is the process by which an increase in temperature induces the disruption of the ordered crystalline lattice, leading to the disordered structure and highly fluctuating dynamic ...

The mysterious changes in phases of matter -- from solid to liquid and back again -- have fascinated some researchers. Researchers have now identified an intermediate phase between solid and liquid in ...