New research shows that these fields speed up water dissociation not by lowering energy costs, but by increasing molecular disorder once ions form. The reaction becomes entropy-driven—exactly the ...

High-entropy materials (HEMs) have emerged as a novel concept in the field of materials science and have garnered significant attention in cutting-edge domains such as catalysis, thermoelectric ...

Researchers have been able to heat up a sample of solid gold to over 14 times its melting temperature for a fraction of a second, bypassing a theoretical limit known as the entropy catastrophe. The ...

A new study identifies how water becomes ionized under electrochemical conditions. Hydrogen is expected to play a major role ...