Phase-change actuation has been revived for the era of untethered, electrically driven soft robots. Our team at the University of Coimbra have developed a phase transition soft actuator designed to ...

Figure 1: Evidence of filling and phase transition of water inside CNTs. Figure 2: Diameter-dependent vapour–liquid and liquid–solid phase transitions of confined water inside CNTs.

The specific phase transition that messed up my sunrise photos is a gas-to-liquid transition, in which water vapor in the air comes in contact with a cooler surface, and condenses into a small ...

At the same time, some of the water molecules from the gas condense back into the liquid. The transition from one phase to the other depends on temperature and pressure. Above a critical ...

For this, a droplet of LC material was dripped onto water and spread to form a thin film. The topological defects formed under this circumstance could show the thermal phase transition when the ...

Bubbles occurred and a previously unknown phase transition happened, according to particle physicists. Think of bringing a pot of water to the boil: As the temperature reaches the boiling point ...

More Brookhaven National Laboratory In the new study, the researchers have shown that the "forbidden" phase transition can be achieved only at a very narrow range of temperatures. And thus ...

"Prior to this paper, we had written a paper that observed a similar phase transition in entanglement, in which we had ...

It's still water molecules, but they are undergoing a transition from solid to liquid ... That could point to some kind of phase change quality of all brains, say the researchers.