Versatile ‘nanocrystal gel’ could enable advances in energy, defense and telecommunications | Center for Dynamics and Control of Materials: an NSF MRSEC

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February 18, 2022

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https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/944042

This graphic shows the materialin its gelled state (left) and its non-gelled state (right). When the materialis heated (right), the chemical bonds between the nanocrystals break and the gel breaks down. When the material is cooled (left), chemical bonds form between the nanocrystals and they organize themselves into a network (the gel).Molecular bonding(top)that controls gelation as a function of temperature is understood using supercomputer simulations (bottom). Credit: Kang, Valenzuela, et al./UT Austin

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