Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh, University of Sydney and Moonika Widjajana, University of Sydney If you dissolve sugar in hot water and then cool it down, you’ll see pure sugar crystals form while impurities stay in the liquid. You can even watch the beautiful sugar crystals slowly grow in the water. You can do the same thing with

The frontiers of chemical engineering and materials science have been challenged by researchers at the University of Sydney. The team used a new technique to observe crystals in liquid metal. According to the study published in the journal Nature Communications in 2025, they captured unprecedented images of the growth of platinum structures within liquid gallium. The team, led by Professor Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh, used X-rays to pass through gallium – an opaque and dense metal that does not allow light to pass through.

Australian scientists say they have been able to make green hydrogen from both freshwater and seawater using a liquid metal known as gallium.

Researchers from the University of Sydney have created a process using liquid metals, powered by sunlight, that can produce clean hydrogen from both freshwater and seawater.

Researchers have created a process using liquid metals, powered by sunlight, that can produce clean hydrogen from both freshwater and seawater.

In this study, the changes to the crystallinity, microstructure, and spatial arrangement of intermetallic crystals within liquid metal droplets, due to the influence of environmental boundaries and solvent contents, were explored. Various metallic crystals inside the liquid metal bulk were...

Researchers have successfully grown platinum crystals in liquid metal, using a powerful X-ray technique giving rare insight into how these delicate crystals form and grow.

The combination of liquid gallium nanoparticles, graphene, and a metal-phenolic gel creates a unique architecture that can act as a highly efficient broad–spectrum solar light absorber. The resulting....