Most materials go from being solids to liquids when they are heated. One rare counter-example is helium-3, which can solidify upon heating. This counterintuitive and exotic effect, known as the Pomeranchuk effect, may now ...
Nanophysics
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Thermoelectric technology can generate electricity from waste heat, although their performance can result in a bottleneck for wider applications. Materials scientists can regulate the configurational entropy of a material ...
Scientists from the Skoltech Center for Design, Manufacturing and Materials (CDMM) and the Institute for Metals Superplasticity Problems (IMSP RAS) have studied the fatigue behavior of additive-manufactured high-entropy alloys ...
Materials Science
Mar 3, 2021
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One theory of aging invokes the Second Law of Thermodynamics and suggests that in the long-term, the heat energy generated by metabolic changes causes damage to living systems that accumulates as repair mechanisms cannot ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 24, 2021
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An international team of researchers produced islands of amorphous, non-crystalline material inside a class of new metal alloys known as high-entropy alloys.
Materials Science
Jan 29, 2021
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Reza Shahbazian-Yassar, professor of mechanical and industrial engineering at the University of Illinois Chicago.
Materials Science
Jan 11, 2021
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Calculations for certain quantum systems whose parts interact over long distances will be much easier to perform thanks to the work of a RIKEN physicist and his collaborator, who have extended an assumption that holds for ...
Quantum Physics
Dec 4, 2020
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Magnetic materials are everywhere—in engines, wind turbines, electronic devices and refrigerators—so materials with better magnetic properties are highly desirable. TU Delft researchers Biswanath Dutta and Fritz Körmann ...
Materials Science
Nov 20, 2020
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Nature is not homogenous. Most of the universe is complex and composed of various subsystems—self-contained systems within a larger whole. Microscopic cells and their surroundings, for example, can be divided into many ...
General Physics
Nov 19, 2020
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Almost all truly intriguing systems are ones that are far away from equilibrium—such as stars, planetary atmospheres, and even digital circuits. But, until now, systems far from thermal equilibrium couldn't be analyzed ...
General Physics
Nov 11, 2020
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