have revealed the remarkable behavior of water and ice under high pressure and temperature, and strong confinement. The study, titled "Rich Proton Dynamics and Phase Behaviors of Nanoconfined Ices ...

Many of the familiar properties of water that result in its behavior in soils can be directly ... results in more void space than in the liquid phase Ice floats; freezing occurs at the top of ...

As for the many proteins, their role in membrane phase behavior is even more difficult ... the requirement that cholesterol be shielded from water by neighboring phospholipid headgroups 11.

and on understanding the textures and phase transitions of freely-suspended liquid crystal films, including the interactions and ordering behavior of topological defects and islands and the 2-D ...

Scientists have uncovered a new way to explore the complex transformations of 2D nanomaterials. By using nanoscale vibrating ...