Clathrate hydrates are crystalline structures formed at the bottom of seafloors, created by water molecules trapping methane, ...

(Nanowerk News) A recent study by researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences redefines how liquids maintain their contact with solid surfaces -also known as wettability - from an intermolecular ...

The liquid levitates, and a boat floats along its bottom side. By Kenneth Chang Sail beneath a levitating sea — upside down? Through a couple of sleights of science, a team of French scientists showed ...

The applications of spectroscopic ellipsometry for the precise characterization of liquid-liquid and liquid-air interfaces include surface science, biomedical applications, thin film coatings, and ...

The journey to unravel the mysteries of ice’s slipperiness began with Michael Faraday’s groundbreaking proposal in the 1850s. Faraday suggested that a thin liquid water layer on the surface of ice was ...

For more than 200 years, scientists have argued about a deceptively simple question: why does a sheet of frozen water let us glide, skid and fall so easily. Now a new generation of simulations and ...

Scientists have cracked open a mysterious layer inside batteries, using cutting-edge 3D atomic force microscopy to capture the dynamic molecular structures at their solid-liquid interfaces. These once ...