Solids. Steel, plastic and wood are solids at room temperature. Ice is solid water. The particles in a solid are: packed tightly together; arranged in a regular way ...

Kanazawa University, report in Small, on how short peptides self-assemble linearly on atomically-thick solid surfaces, such ...

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Pluto's surface, fitting for a world whose surface shivers at a cryogenic -364 F (-220 C), is frozen solid. But beneath that nitrogen ice may lie a subsurface ocean of liquid water. A recent study ...

Trapped The study of nanoconfined water has important real-world applications in biology, engineering and geology. (Courtesy: Christoph Schran, Cambridge University) When water is trapped in narrow, ...