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Researchers have found that gold nanoparticles with thermoresponsive organic ligands on their surface showed liquid-like ...

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A nanocrystal is an extraordinarily tiny piece of material—composed of anywhere from a few to a few thousand atoms—in which ...

A new quantum physics study reveals that simply changing a magnetic field over time can unlock entirely new forms of matter ...

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