Not quite crystals and not quite a glass, quasicrystals are an oddity whose properties are not well understood – but now we ...

A Double Corrugated Waveguide Shielded by Photonic Crystal (PhC) wall is proposed for effective beam-wave interaction with a circular beam at terahertz frequency. Numerical results reveal that the The ...

The research team has identified atacamite as a material with magnetocaloric properties. Natural crystals have long ...

Imagine a liquid that flows freely one moment, then stiffens into a near-solid the next, and then can switch back with a ...

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

Let’s face it: scooping litter is nobody’s favorite chore. That’s where self-cleaning litter boxes steal the show - they give ...

The photonic band structures in 2D tunable hexagonal magnetic photonic crystals were investigated on the basis of plane wave expansion method. It was found that the photonic band gaps tended to exist ...

Yooperlites are a variety of sodalite-rich syenite found in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

This Virtual Special Issue of Crystal Growth & Design highlights the latest progress in understanding the link between the properties and structures of nanomaterials. It explores the innovative ...

Synthesis, crystal structures, and chemical bonding are reported for four binary phosphides with different degrees of phosphorus oligomerization, ranging from isolated P atoms to infinite phosphorus ...