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Liquid crystal takes page from steel in surprising phase transition
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SignalsMonitor is following this as a technology story. Phys.org Breaking News is the outlet attached so far. The first report grouped here was at 22 Sept 2026, 14:00 UTC. The headline in use is “Liquid crystal takes page from steel in surprising phase transition”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
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A type of transformation best known for hardening steel and enabling shape-memory alloys may also occur in a much softer class of materials, according to new research from Rice University. Researchers in the departments of chemistry and chemical and biomolecular engineering and at the Smalley-Curl Institute at Rice have shown…
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Liquid crystal takes page from steel in surprising phase transition
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