{"id":236194,"date":"2026-04-30T02:16:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T07:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/microscopic-sensors-uncover-how-liquids-turn-glassy-without-structural-change"},"modified":"2026-04-30T02:16:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T07:16:58","slug":"microscopic-sensors-uncover-how-liquids-turn-glassy-without-structural-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/microscopic-sensors-uncover-how-liquids-turn-glassy-without-structural-change","title":{"rendered":"Microscopic sensors uncover how liquids turn glassy without structural change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microscopic-sensors-uncover-how-liquids-turn-glassy-without-structural-change.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A scientific discovery by researchers at Tel Aviv University\u2019s School of Chemistry offers a new perspective on a long-standing scientific mystery: how does a flowing liquid suddenly become a rigid, almost frozen material, without changing its structure? This phenomenon, known as the \u201cglass transition,\u201d has puzzled physicists for over a hundred years. The study proposes a new experimental approach to observing this elusive process\u2014by tracking the motion of tiny particles that serve as microscopic \u201csensors\u201d within the material.<\/p>\n<p>The study was conducted by Prof. Haim Diamant and Prof. Yael Roichman of the School of Chemistry at Tel Aviv University, together with the research group of Prof. Stefan Egelhaaf at Heinrich Heine University D\u00fcsseldorf. The findings were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41567-025-03140-z\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Nature Physics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A scientific discovery by researchers at Tel Aviv University\u2019s School of Chemistry offers a new perspective on a long-standing scientific mystery: how does a flowing liquid suddenly become a rigid, almost frozen material, without changing its structure? This phenomenon, known as the \u201cglass transition,\u201d has puzzled physicists for over a hundred years. The study proposes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236194","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=236194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}