However, the properties of certain materials defy simplistic categorization.
They focused their efforts on the transition process to the solid state.
To examine this, the team created colloidsellipsoidal glass particles which were dispersed and suspended throughout another substance.
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These particles are larger than molecules, and could be observed interacting in different concentrations.
In other words, the particles grouped together in alignments.
Scientists have discovered a new fourth state of matterliquid glass.
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Ellipsoidal particles in clusters of a liquid glass.
Ellipsoidal particles in clusters of a liquid glass. (Photo:Research groups of Professor Andreas Zumbusch and Professor Matthias Fuchs)
