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Gold is usually solid up to 1,064 °C, but thin slivers can be briefly heated to many times that without melting. Credit: Alexis Huguet/AFP/Getty Scientists say that they have heated solid gold ...

Commentary Published: November 2006 Phase behavior of lipid mixtures Gerald W Feigenson Nature Chemical Biology 2, 560–563 (2006) Cite this article ...

More information: Hillary Pan et al, Kinetic pathways of solid–solid phase transitions dictated by short-range interactions, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2025).

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In certain regimes, it shows a “hexatic” phase, which is intermediate between a solid and liquid as predicted by the so-called KTHNY theory that describes the melting of crystals in 2D confinement.

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