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A group of researchers at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences engineered metafluids – the first of a “new class of fluids” — which bring a number of intriguing properties, such as ...

IT is well known that the adiabatic compressibility β ψ of a liquid increases fairly rapidly with rise in temperature. The rise becomes more rapid as the temperature increases. With many liquids the ...