Scientists unveil a solid electrolyte that moves lithium as fast as liquids, promising safer, fast-charging batteries.

Normally, when liquids solidify, their molecules become locked in place, making it much harder for ions to move and leading ...

Phonons are sound particles or quantized vibrations of atoms in solid materials. The Debye model, a theory introduced by physicist Peter Debye in 1912, describes the contribution of phonons to the ...

Understanding and reliably measuring the geometric properties of quantum states can shed new light on the intricate ...

Molten lava and yogurt and are well-known examples of non-Newtonian fluids, also known as soft solids. A soft solid can act like either a solid or a liquid, based upon the stress that has acted upon ...

Just about every (but not all) solids expand with an increase in temperature. Why? Before going to the answer, let's look at a common model of a solid - the ball and spring model. In this model, solid ...

Figure 1: The five Platonic solids and the 13 Archimedean solids. We formulate the problem of generating dense packings of non-overlapping polyhedra within an adaptive fundamental cell subject to ...

Substances can exist in three states of matter - solid, liquid and gas. All substances are made from particles, and the forces between the particles are different in solids, liquids and gases. The ...