Liquid

The closest thing we have to magnetic liquids are ferrofluids. But now, Berkeley Lab has managed to create the first permanently magnetic liquids, which could open up new avenues for electronics and robotics.

Water filters can get dirty and lose their effectiveness quickly. Now researchers have tested a new nature-inspired membrane that filters liquids using other liquids, making for a more efficient and longer-lasting membrane.

Harvard scientists have led an international team to develop a new surface that can reconfigure its shape, stickiness or slipperiness on demand, through the application of a magnetic field.

Our phones follow us everywhere – which often puts them in the line of fire for spilt drinks or rain. But now a team at the University of Michigan has developed a durable, clear coating that could help phones – or any surface, for that matter – repel almost any liquid.

A new technique developed at Berkeley Lab allows liquid 3D structures to be printed within other liquids. This new form of 3D printing could give rise to flexible and stretchable liquid electronics, aid chemical synthesis, or serve as a transport and delivery system for nanoscale particles.

Rather than using hydrogen in its normal gaseous state, a liquid hydrogen carrier called formic acid has been floated, and now a team from EPFL has built a promising prototype of a formic acid-based fuel cell.

Water is way weirder than you might think. We all know it can exist as a solid, liquid and gas, but now, researchers have found that water actually has two different liquid forms, and its weirdness may come from the relationship between those forms.

Thanks to gravity, fluids flow downwards following the path of least resistance. Now researchers at Brandeis University have mixed biological molecules into a substance that marks the first steps towards developing a self-propelling liquid, that could flow free of human or gravitational influence.

Scientists at Yale University have discovered that if liquid droplets are just the right size, they can actually make a solid material stiffer when added to it. Their findings could pave the way for composite materials that use liquids for added functionality, yet that don't compromise strength.

IceLiners could be the perfect solution to creating ice-cold cocktails which stay almost-frozen for as long as it takes to drink them. IceLiners is simple, comprising a silicone mold used to line a glass with frozen water, fruit juice, or mixer suitable for consuming with your favorite cocktail.

Measuring liquids in the kitchen while cooking can quite easily spiral into spill-covered bench tops and a sink full of dishes. According to John Wegner, this can all be avoided using his Liquidy-Split bottle, a container for storing liquids with a built-in dial for measuring different quantities.

Scientists have used tiny spheres coated in a water-repellent coating to get water to boil without bubbles.