Phase change materials are proving to be a useful tool to store excess energy and recover it later – storing energy not as electricity, but as heat. Let’s take a look at how the technology ...

Less than a decade ago, researchers found a peculiar phase of matter where the electrons of a particular compound would ...

The new phase comes in the form of a pattern of electron spins—half of which are highly ordered, or "cold", and the rest of ...

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory discovered a new phase a matter called ...

The concept of phase-change recording is straightforward. An intense laser or current pulse heats and melts the crystalline material, which is subsequently quenched into the amorphous state. To ...

Central to the study is a hybrid system made of perovskite quantum dots (QDs) and nanostructured antimony telluride (Sb₂Te₃), ...

Researchers from Bangladesh and Australia have explored hybrid nano-phase change materials (HNPCMs) for PVT applications. They used paraffin wax as the phase-change material (PCM), incorporating ...

A rewritable optical disc. First used in drives by Panasonic in the late 1980s, the phase change technology was subsequently employed in all major optical drives, including CD-RW, DVD-RW ...

A chance discovery led a team of scientists from Rice University, University of Cambridge and Stanford University to ...

The researchers discovered the new phase while studying a one-dimensional model of a type of magnetic material called a ...

An exotic state of matter has been found lurking within a previous exotic state that was discovered in a magnetic compound ...

Phase change materials (PCM) are already used for basic energy storage, in reducing heat losses, increasing heat storage, controlling temperature changes, and controlling spaces' temperature. However, ...