Mostaafa Hassan, PhD, assistant professor at the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and in the Department ...

Supersolids are a strange state of matter defined by quantum mechanics where particles condense into an orderly, crystalline ...

The particles can now move from their fixed positions, and the substance changes state. First from solid to liquid, then if we continue heating to raise the temperature and break the remaining ...

The particles of a solid are very close together. It melts when it changes from the solid state to the liquid state. The same mass of liquid will have slightly greater volume than the solid.

When tiny metal particles fly at supersonic speeds and hit a surface, they can stick together and form strong bonds. This process is used in industries like 3D printing and cold spray coating to build ...

Solid-state batteries use non-flammable solid electrolytes ... Based on the "cubic closed packing" structure, where spherical particles are arranged at maximum density, the research team defined ...