If you dissolve sugar in hot water and then cool it down, you'll see pure sugar crystals form while impurities stay in the ...

Scientists have pulled off a rare feat of watching platinum crystals grow inside liquid metal in real time, a process that ...

Waters supersaturated with sparingly soluble salts are encountered in RO/NF (reverse osmosis/nanofiltration) membrane-based water treatment processes, cooling water discharge, and produced water from ...

Driven by these challenges, researchers at New York University, in collaboration with scientists at the biopharmaceutical company AbbVie, have developed a new computational tool that can quickly and ...

X-ray computed tomography was then utilized to image a droplet of the platinum-Gallium alloy. Cross-sections were acquired ...

A recent theory challenges conventional understanding of crystallization. It shows that the dominant element in a solution—the solvent, not the solute—is the material that crystallizes. This finding, ...

Researchers have developed a new crystalline material that can harvest water from fog without any energy input. The design of the novel type of smart crystals, which the researchers named Janus ...

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