Refinement of the hemimorphite crystal structure using single-crystal synchrotron X-ray diffraction data collected at high pressure revealed a structural phase transition into an incommensurately modulated structure, accompanied by the appearance of satellite reflections.

An optical-tweezer-based nanorheometer is developed to quantify the viscoelasticity of biomolecular condensates and intracellular compartments in vivo during aging and mutations that cause nuclear env...

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New research offers clearer insight into how phase transitions unfold at the atomic scale in real materials. When ice turns into water, the change happens almost instantly. Once the melting temperature...

A symmetry guide for the secondary structural degrees of freedom and related physical properties generated by tilts of BX6 octahedra in perovskites is proposed.

A full symmetry-mode decomposition analysis of PrNiO3 across its temperature-induced structural phase transitions allows identification of oxygen stretching and Jahn–Teller-like modes as the primary drivers of charge disproportionation at ∼130 K, concomitant with the metal–insulator transition. These distortions persist and evolve through the high-temperature orthorhombic to rhombohedral transition.

Scientists have uncovered a new way to explore the complex transformations of 2D nanomaterials. By using nanoscale vibrating membranes, they observed how mechanical and magnetic properties shift at extreme...

Phase transitions in metastable rutile-related V0.92O2 were studied with single-crystal X-ray diffraction and measurements of electronic transport properties at extreme conditions. The high-tem­per­a­ture incommensurate phase was found to be insulating.

Dynamic Kerr microscopy enables the tracking of the two-step melting of a magnetic skyrmion lattice from a two-dimensional solid through an intermediate hexatic regime to an isotropic liquid and provi...

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The effect of hydrostatic pressure on the structure and dynamics of concentrated silica-PNIPAm (poly-N-isopropylacrylamide) nanogels reveals characteristics similar to those found in temperature-induced phase transitions. However, significant aging is seen in glass and gel samples, which is absent in the liquid state.

A study published in Nature Physics provides new molecular-level evidence from simulations that liquid water is not a single uniform substance, but a constantly shifting mixture of two distinct micros...