Uploaded February 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Reporting in The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, researchers were surprised to find that different frequencies of sound produced different patterns in a color-changing liquid. Studying reactions like this could help scientists design chemical computers that can hear and process information.

Read the paper: doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.3c08429 (Corresponding author: Pier Luigi Gentili, Ph.D.)

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