An artist's rendition of a cloudy super-Earth. Scientists suspect that alien life could potentially thrive on an alien planet by subsisting on "supercritical" carbon dioxide instead of water ...

More information: Katja Mauelshagen et al, Random encounters dominate water-water interactions at supercritical conditions, Science Advances (2025). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adp8614 ...

Supercritical fluid For every substance there exists a critical temperature Tc above which it cannot remain a liquid, irrespective of the increasing pressure. Similarly, there exists a critical ...

Nanoconfined water enters intermediate solid-liquid phase The team’s ab initio molecular dynamics simulations also revealed that two water molecules in the supercritical phase remain close to each ...

That supercritical fluid can penetrate into pores; deep inside a metal artifact, it gets into the structure beneath the corrosion. Once effused into an object, the fluid dissolves water and other ...

Choose from solvent–free pilot to lab–scale supercritical fluid extraction systems. Users can operate in a static, pressure control mode or a dynamic flow control mode. Options range from 100 mL up to ...

Slick fluid Because of the extreme temperatures and pressures, the water is probably in the supercritical phase, where gas and liquid are indistinguishable.

Although supercritical fluids were used as eluents for chromatographic separations in 1962, the term supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) was first used only five years later. Since then, the ...

However, an underappreciated forerunner, supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC), is making a comeback thanks to new technological developments and a fresh perspective on its versatility. Download ...

The fluid is in a "supercritical" state that has never before been seen in nature. The fluid spews out of two black smokers called Two Boats and Sisters Peak.