The melting of materials seems like a simple phenomenon. However, when their thickness is reduced to just a few atoms, ...
For more than a century, schoolbook physics has divided matter into neat categories like solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. A ...
Jun Wu, Minxue Tang, Lingrong Zhao, Pengfei Zhu, Tao Jiang, Xiao Zou, Liang Hong, Sheng-Nian Luo, Dao Xiang, Jie Zhang Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, ...
High school science misses a lot of the science researchers actually work with. For example, you learn that there are three states of matter—solid, liquid, and gas—but in advanced physics, things get ...
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The ultrafast laser excitation of matters leads to nonequilibrium states with complex solid-liquid phase-transition dynamics. We used electron diffraction at mega–electron volt energies to visualize ...
While universal formulas exist for every other phase transition (liquid-to-gas, gas-to-liquid, even solid-to-gas), no such formula exists for predicting when a solid melts into a liquid. A new study ...
Fresh evidence that water can change from one form of liquid into another, denser liquid, has been uncovered. Fresh evidence that water can change from one form of liquid into another, denser liquid, ...
"Molecular Dynamics Studies of Solid–Liquid Phase Transition in 2-D Yukawa Systems" (with P. Hartmann, Z. Donko, G. Kalman, and S. Kyrkos ), IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci. 35 (2), 332 (2007).