Magnetic composite with stiffness control allows programmable 3D shape shifting for use in soft robots, tactile interfaces, and reconfigurable displays.

Although iron zirconide and nickel zirconide are not superconducting, their newly created mixtures exhibit superconductivity, with a "dome-shaped" phase diagram characteristic of unconventional ...

These inclusions typically hosted some liquid and a gas bubble, but in several cases it was possible to see a solid third phase. Usually the associated crystal had very low ... to Schwarz and Pardieu ...

However, expanding this to two-dimensional systems presented new challenges, including the risk of disruptions in the liquid-crystal patterns that would affect light behavior. To overcome this ...

Using a liquid-crystal (LC)-based platform, the team designed an optical processor capable of handling hundreds of optical modes in a compact, two-dimensional setup. This breakthrough offers a ...

A new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances; DOI  10.29026/oea.2025.240250, discusses on-chip multi-channel near-far field terahertz vortices with parity breaking and active modulation.

In this study, the research team used a liquid-phase precursor method to synthesize high-purity WC-xTaC and WB₂ ceramic powders. By introducing tantalum carbide (TaC) as a grain growth inhibitor ...

They show how water molecules transition from one phase to another. This discovery enriches our understanding of water's fundamental properties. The liquid-liquid transition could explain some ...

the research team shed light on a process called liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS); it involves proteins spontaneously organizing into condensates without membranes that sometimes resemble the ...

Particular attention is paid to the optical properties, electrooptic effects, phase transitions and experimental methods used in liquid crystal research. Special chapters are devoted to dielectric ...