In everyday life, we typically encounter water in one of three familiar states—solid, liquid or gas. But there are in fact ...

Water isn't just liquid, ice, or vapor — under extreme conditions, it can transform into exotic phases, such as the newly observed plastic ice VII. This hybrid phase, predicted years ago but only ...

Plastic ice VII was originally ... detailed picture of the water molecule dynamics. A 4-fold rotational model, as typically observed in jump-rotor plastic crystals, was identified as the most ...

For ice, the phase of water containing a periodically repeating crystal lattice, it is of paramount importance ... we have simulated the 3D bulk structure of ice in the Ih and XI phases together with ...

High-pressure experiments generated the first direct observation of plastic ice, which has qualities of both crystalline ice and liquid water.

Porous organic crystals with superior properties as CO2 adsorbents were created by researchers at Institute of Science Tokyo.

Once thought impossible, quasicrystals revealed a hidden order that challenges our understanding of materials. Their ...

the ice quakes explain the origin of numerous fault planes between ice crystals in ice cores obtained from great depths. These fault planes are the result of tectonic shifts and have been known to ...

The Kostenki 11 site, located near the Don River, just 300 kilometers from Moscow, is one of the most significant Upper ...

Scientists have identified a new property, interface flexibility, that controls how certain molecules naturally self-organize into crystalline supramolecular networks. This significant discovery could ...

Ice Nucleation: The process by which ice crystals form from water or other substances, often occurring in supercooled liquids. Molecular Dynamics Simulations: A computational method used to model ...