Antimony is widely used in the production of materials for electronics, as well as metal alloys resistant to corrosion and high temperatures. "Antimony melt is interesting because near the melting ...

"We investigated antimony as an elemental model system for phase change materials. It has a similar structure to germanium telluride, but consists of only one type of atom," says Professor Schnohr.

The final optical contrast between crystal and glass, as observed in the refractive index, only forms after strong cooling in the supercooled liquid (in liquid antimony below the melting temperature), ...