Graphene has long been regarded as one of the most promising materials for future electronics, but its relatively weak ...

A stable honeycomb borophene layer hosts strongly interacting electrons that form a quantum liquid crystal state, with ...

Charge density waves (CDWs) are ordered, crystal-like patterns in the arrangement of electrons that spontaneously form inside some solid materials. These patterns can change how electricity flows ...

A team at the University of Tokyo has described in unprecedented detail the rare phenomenon of liquid-to-liquid phase transitions in a pure substance. By showing how a liquid made of just one type of ...

Theoretical modelling explores the movement of atoms within a liquid nanodroplet of platinum that is confined inside a defect in a carbon support. The colours represent the mobility of the atoms: ...

Under pressure: Researchers have measured liquid carbon experimentally for the first time, by combining a high-power laser with the ultrashort X-ray laser flash of the European XFEL. (Courtesy HZDR/M ...