The study has been published in Nature. Unlike regular ice, plastic Ice VII requires extreme conditions to form.

Water ice is a far more complex substance than we might assume. Scientists have now created an exotic new form of ice in the ...

An international team led by physicists at Penn State and Columbia University has developed a novel approach to maintain ...

Researchers have found that adding just the right amount of disorder to the structure of certain materials can make them more than twice as resistant to cracking.

For the first time, scientists have observed one of these exotic phases: Plastic Ice VII. “Plastic phases are hybrid states ...

A study finds that adding controlled disorder to mechanical metamaterials more than doubles toughness, making them more crack ...

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Quantum technology struggles with scaling up, as the special properties of quantum materials typically vanish in larger structures. Researchers have now found a way to maintain quantum properties in ...

Experiments on battery electrodes and fuel cell catalysts while they're being used - operando spectroscopy - can ...

Cut open a bone and you'll see a subtly disordered structure. Tiny beams, called trabeculae, connect to one another in irregular patterns ...