I've always been fascinated by how materials break down, especially glasses and polymers that don't have a regular crystal ...

Since the crystal lattices of the two layers are no longer exactly on top of each other, a kind of beating effect occurs: just as two sound waves with slightly different frequencies lead to a slow ...

A team of researchers has developed a novel method for using cholesteric liquid crystals in optical microcavities. The ...

A new method in electron microscopy enables sub-20-picometer targeting of individual atoms without prior exposure, opening ...

University at Buffalo researcher Viviana Monje and colleagues awarded $1.2 million grant to study how popular aquarium fish ...

Scientists have observed yet another type of magnetism for the first time within a lab-made crystal, promising to drive ...

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Scientists at the University of Michigan have unlocked a long-standing mystery about quasicrystals exotic materials that straddle the line between the orderly structure of crystals and the chaos of ...

The most famous packing problem concerns spheres. In 1611, the astronomer Johannes Kepler proposed that the densest way to ...

Researchers successfully freeze light into a supersolid, a groundbreaking discovery with potential applications in quantum computing and energy transport.

Scientists reveal that earthquakes generate electricity in quartz, explaining how enormous gold nuggets grow in deep rock ...

AlGaN strain strategies For AlGaN UV LEDs, which are typically grown on AlN templates, AlGaN strain-modulation strategies aim to mitigate the compressive stress. This can be realised by adjusting the ...