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Phase Transitions

Supercooled Water Thermal Fluctuations Critical Points First-Order Phase Transition Boiling and Freezing Supercritical State Supercooling Effects Threshold Effects Thermal Stability Sublimation Processes First-Order Phase Transitions Freezing Processes Frost Formation First-Order Melting Transition Latent Heat Hybrid States Melting Point Structural Transitions Freezing Process Out-of-Equilibrium Systems Crystallization Superconducting Transitions Supercritical Fluids Multiphase Flows Amorphous Materials Solidification Processes Low Temperature Physics Premelting State Metastability Superconducting Phase Superfluidity Water Behavior Ice Properties Leidenfrost Effect Ice Phases Boltzmann Distribution Ice Formation Nucleation Liquid Films

Nickelate Superconductors Advance With 63 K Films at Ambient Pressure and 96 K Under Pressure

Together, the advances chart practical routes to stronger, more coherent nickelate superconductivity.

Experiments Reveal Hidden Critical Point in Supercooled Water

Ultrafast X-Rays Reveal Elusive Critical Point in Supercooled Water

Scientists 3D-Print Intricate Ice Tree Using Vacuum-Driven Evaporative Cooling

Microsecond X-Rays Reveal Ice XXI, a New High-Pressure Form of Ice

Study Shows Dry Ice Blocks Carve Mars' Sinuous Dune Gullies

Water’s ‘Premelting’ Phase Directly Observed in Nanopores

Simulations Point to Carbon as Trigger for Earth’s Inner-Core Formation

Simulations Pin Ice’s Slipperiness on Dipoles, Not Pressure or Friction

Engineered Metal Surface Uses Meltwater and Surface Tension to Self-Propel Ice Discs

Lab Simulations Show Trapped Vapor Cracks Ice to Propel Cryovolcanism on Europa and Enceladus

Gold Superheated to 14 Times Its Melting Point, Overturning Entropy Catastrophe Limit

Study Reveals Hidden Nano-Crystals in Space Ice