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

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 ...

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

New work could help in the development of materials that host exotic coherent quantum states under ambient conditions ...

Kanazawa University, report in Small, on how short peptides self-assemble linearly on atomically-thick solid surfaces, such ...

By trapping both products in the crystal lattice, we now have a complete resolution profile of all the catalytic steps. One crystal structure refined to 1.55 Å resolution shows two states of the ...

We propose a wide angle, efficient and low loss 1 × 3 power splitter based on triangular lattice air holes silicon slab Photonic Crystal (PhC). Desired power splitting ratio was achieved by altering ...

Diamonds have a reputation as one of the hardest materials known to man, which is undoubtedly true, but they're not as tough as you think they are.

The salts formed between 4-dimethylaminopyridine and fumaric acid included one or two fumaric acid molecules within the crystal lattice. Thus, the reported grid of crystal forms demonstrates the ...

Researchers at the Nano Life Science Institute (WPI-NanoLSI), Kanazawa University, report in Small, a weekly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering nanotechnology, published by Wiley-WCH, Germany, ...

The result was surprising: Instead of spinning smoothly like a hurricane or a solid sphere, the solitons developed an internal lattice ... in a crystal pattern." One intriguing idea the researchers ...