{"id":210599,"date":"2025-04-05T02:11:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T07:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/an-exception-to-the-laws-of-thermodynamics-shape-recovering-liquid-defies-textbooks"},"modified":"2025-04-05T02:11:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T07:11:01","slug":"an-exception-to-the-laws-of-thermodynamics-shape-recovering-liquid-defies-textbooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/an-exception-to-the-laws-of-thermodynamics-shape-recovering-liquid-defies-textbooks","title":{"rendered":"An exception to the laws of thermodynamics: Shape-recovering liquid defies textbooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/an-exception-to-the-laws-of-thermodynamics-shape-recovering-liquid-defies-textbooks2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers led by a physics graduate student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst made the surprising discovery of what they call a \u201cshape-recovering liquid,\u201d which defies some long-held expectations derived from the laws of thermodynamics.<\/p>\n<p>The research, published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41567-025-02865-1\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Nature Physics<\/i><\/a>, details a mixture of oil, water and magnetized particles that, when shaken, always quickly separates into what looks like the classically curvaceous lines of a Grecian urn.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImagine your favorite Italian salad dressing,\u201d says Thomas Russell, Silvio O. Conte Distinguished Professor of Polymer Science and Engineering at UMass Amherst and one of the paper\u2019s senior authors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers led by a physics graduate student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst made the surprising discovery of what they call a \u201cshape-recovering liquid,\u201d which defies some long-held expectations derived from the laws of thermodynamics. The research, published in Nature Physics, details a mixture of oil, water and magnetized particles that, when [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}