We present a detailed study on the liquid structure of hexachloroethane (C2Cl6) within the first shell using the proper Euler-angles convention. Molecular dynamics is used and the van der Waals picture of a liquid is taken ...

The dynamics of the pure compounds and mixed crystals formed between cycloheptanol (cC7-ol) and cyclooctanol (cC8-ol) has been studied by means of broadband dielectric spectroscopy at temperatures near and above the ...

Plastic phases are constituted by molecules whose centers of mass form a long range ordered crystalline lattice, but rotate in a more or less constrained way. Pentachloronitrobenzene (PCNB) is a quasi-planar hexa-substituted ...

The thermal conductivity κ(T ) of the fully ordered stable phase II, the metastable phase III, the orientationally disordered (plastic) phase I, as well as the nonergodic orientational glass (OG) phase, of the glass ...

Both structural glasses and disordered crystals are known to exhibit anomalous thermal, vibrational, and acoustic properties at low temperatures or low energies, what is still a matter of lively debate. To shed light on ...

Fisidabo is an educational project aimed at promoting critical thinking among students. Under the framework of this project, and motivated by the ubiquitous qualitative analogy between spacetime warping by massive objects ...

Water is the most important plasticizer of biological and organic hydrophilic materials, which generally exhibit enhanced mechanical softness and molecular mobility upon hydration. The enhancement of the molecular dynamics ...

The hydrophobic adamantane molecule is fully hydrated through vapour codeposition with water onto a cryogenic substrate and the structure of the first hydration shell is studied with neutron diffraction.

Many materials of interest and processes relevant to life are based in disordered phases. This disorder can be either positional, orientational or both as in the case of liquids. Unfortunately, the study of disordered ...

Making maths accessible to the general public and to students is not an easy task, but what happens when you can ¿hear¿ that maths? We present in this article a show performed together with musicians that unravels the ...