Deep in Chile’s Atacama Desert, scientists studied a green crystal called atacamite—and discovered it can cool itself ...

A rotating lattice single (RLS) crystal is a unique form of solid, which was fabricated recently as one-dimensional architecture in glass via solid state transformation induced by laser irradiation.

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

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

Crystal structure of the cubic Laves phases ABi 2 (A = K, Rb, Cs). Bi atoms (drawn in purple) form a vertex-sharing tetrahedral (pyrochlore) lattice with voids filled with alkali atoms (green).

Objective Cluster science is a very important research field in computational chemistry, and the prediction of the lowest energy structure of B40 and B45 has always been a difficult problem. However, ...

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