Gold remains perfectly solid when briefly heated beyond previously hypothesized limits, a new study reports, which may mean a complete reevaluation of how matter behaves under extreme conditions.

With fast heating, sheets of gold can shoot past the theoretical maximum temperature a solid can have before it melts – ...

Gold was superheated to 19,000 Kelvin without melting, defying physics and unlocking new possibilities in high-energy ...

Scientists have used an ultrafast laser to heat solid gold to 14 times its melting point without turning the metal into liquid.

Physicists superheated gold to 14 times its melting point, disproving a long-standing prediction about the temperature limits of solids ...

“Until now, we thought that solids could not exist above about three times their melting temperatures,” White says. “Our results show that if we heat a material rapidly – that is, before it has time ...

Our research reveals how gold nanoparticles exposed to hydrothermal fluids have the ability to melt and produce gold nanomelts," says Diego Domínguez-Carretero (UB), who is the first author of ...