Solids can be melted by heating, but in the quantum world it can also be the other way around: An experimental team has shown how a quantum liquid forms supersolid structures by heating. The ...

Researchers at CU Boulder’s Soft Materials Research Center (SMRC) have discovered an elusive phase of matter, first proposed more than 100 years ago and sought after ever since. Nematic liquid ...

Scientists have observed transitions into and out of an exotic state of matter found between liquid and solid in 2-D materials (Sci. Rep. 2021, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-80082-x). The hexatic phase ...

A team sees stripes in samples of twisted double bilayer graphene, indicating the presence of a nematic phase characterized by broken rotational symmetry. Although twisted sheets of double bilayer ...

What is Liquid-Phase Exfoliation? Liquid-phase exfoliation (LPE) is a versatile and scalable method for producing two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterials from layered bulk crystals. It involves the use of ...