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‘Quintuple point’ material defies 150-year-old thermodynamics rule

22 Oct 2020 Isabelle Dumé
Quintuple point material
A five-phase equilibrium. Image: ICMS animation studio
Five different phases of a colloid-polymer mixture can co-exist at the same time, in defiance of the

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