{"id":218614,"date":"2025-07-24T04:22:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T09:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/researchers-visualize-crystal-phase-changes-particle-by-particle-in-new-simulations"},"modified":"2025-07-24T04:22:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T09:22:36","slug":"researchers-visualize-crystal-phase-changes-particle-by-particle-in-new-simulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/researchers-visualize-crystal-phase-changes-particle-by-particle-in-new-simulations","title":{"rendered":"Researchers visualize crystal phase changes particle by particle in new simulations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-visualize-crystal-phase-changes-particle-by-particle-in-new-simulations2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The secret to how steel hardens and shape-memory alloys snap into place lies in rapid, atomic-scale shifts that scientists have struggled to observe in materials. Now, Cornell researchers are revealing how these transformations unfold, particle by particle, through advanced modeling techniques.<\/p>\n<p>Using custom-built computer simulations, Julia Dshemuchadse, assistant professor of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/materials+science\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">materials science<\/a> and engineering at Cornell Engineering, and Hillary Pan, Ph.D., have visualized solid-solid phase transitions in unprecedented detail, capturing the motion of every particle in a theoretical material as its crystal structure morphs into another.<\/p>\n<p>Their findings, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.2507403122\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the <i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/i>, reveal not only classical transformation mechanisms, but also entirely new ones, reshaping how scientists understand this fundamental process in materials science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The secret to how steel hardens and shape-memory alloys snap into place lies in rapid, atomic-scale shifts that scientists have struggled to observe in materials. Now, Cornell researchers are revealing how these transformations unfold, particle by particle, through advanced modeling techniques. Using custom-built computer simulations, Julia Dshemuchadse, assistant professor of materials science and engineering at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,38,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-engineering","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218614","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=218614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}