The recent identification of a novel molecular architecture of water, stabilized at a temperature close to our own but under immense compression, opens unexpected perspectives on the physics of ...

The formation of ice from supercooled water is a process that underpins natural phenomena ranging from cloud formation and climate regulation to technological applications such as cryopreservation.

Researchers have discovered that water, under extreme pressure, can freeze and melt through multiple unexpected pathways, ...

Ice is a key component in the universe. There are frozen water molecules on comets, moons, exoplanets, and in your drink as you cool off from the summer heat. However, under the microscope, not all ...

Only one side of a silver crystal has the right structure to trigger ice formation, revealing how these particles help clouds ...

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have announced a discovery. Despite forming in a perfectly hexagonal lattice, ice exhibits surprising flexibility and ...

Plastic ice VII has the same cubic structure as regular ice VII, but as the name suggests it’s a little more flexible. While the molecules are still locked in a rigid cubic lattice, they can rotate on ...

The structure of semi-crystalline polymers largely depends on how strongly their molecular chains are entangled. Following numerous experiments, researchers developed a new model to predict the ...