{"id":222837,"date":"2025-10-03T03:20:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T08:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/supercritical-fluids-once-thought-uniform-found-to-contain-liquid-clusters"},"modified":"2025-10-03T03:20:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T08:20:21","slug":"supercritical-fluids-once-thought-uniform-found-to-contain-liquid-clusters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/supercritical-fluids-once-thought-uniform-found-to-contain-liquid-clusters","title":{"rendered":"Supercritical fluids once thought uniform found to contain liquid clusters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/supercritical-fluids-once-thought-uniform-found-to-contain-liquid-clusters2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A supercritical fluid refers to a state in which the temperature and pressure of a substance exceed its critical point, where no distinction exists between liquid and gas phases. Traditionally, it has been regarded as a single, uniform phase. However, a research team at POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology) experimentally demonstrated nonequilibrium phase separation within supercritical fluids by observing nanometer-sized \u201cliquid clusters\u201d that persist for up to one hour.<\/p>\n<p>The research team led by Professor Gunsu Yun from the Division of Advanced Nuclear Engineering and the Department of Physics at POSTECH, in collaboration with Dr. Jong Dae Jang\u2019s group at the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI), Professor Min Young Ha at Kyung Hee University, and Dr. Changwoo Do\u2019s team at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in the U.S., experimentally verified the existence of nano-clusters that exist separately in a liquid-like state within <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/supercritical+fluids\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">supercritical fluids<\/a> previously considered a uniform phases.<\/p>\n<p>The experiment utilized the Small-Angle Neutron Scattering (SANS) instrument at Korea\u2019s neutron research facility, HANARO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A supercritical fluid refers to a state in which the temperature and pressure of a substance exceed its critical point, where no distinction exists between liquid and gas phases. Traditionally, it has been regarded as a single, uniform phase. However, a research team at POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology) experimentally demonstrated nonequilibrium phase [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222837","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=222837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}