Scientists from the University of Oxford and partner institutions have created a new class of organic materials called state-independent electrolytes (SIEs). This discovery challenges a fundamental ...

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A research team affiliated with UNIST has demonstrated that liquid electrolytes, when frozen, can still facilitate ...

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People who investigate scientific topics either love or hate glass, which is a confusing none-of-the-above unicorn: neither fully liquid nor fully solid, exhibiting some properties of each, but ...