The most eye-catching thing about iodine sublimation is the bright purple ... his phone camera of his students’ freshly deposited crystals under a microscope at 40× zoom.

Sublimation is an unusual phenomenon where a solid becomes ... When the iodine is gently heated, it sublimes (sublimates) and the gas forms extremely pure iodine crystals that collect on the cold test ...

The iodine crystals can then simply be heated ... requires a relatively long time (around 10 minutes) to be heated to sublimation temperature, which might not make the thruster responsive enough ...

These crystals, which are based on a groundbreaking discovery made by the team in 2015, are capable of capturing iodine — one of the most common radioactive fission products — in aqueous and ...

“Last year we tested critical technologies for iodine storage, delivery, and sublimation, on Spacety’s Xiaoxiang 1-08 satellite as part of an in-orbit demonstration of our I2T5 iodine cold gas ...

A chance observation due to dust contamination has uncovered a surprising new process of fluid transport when a crystal surface interacts with water. Schematic representation of structural changes ...