In a paper recently published in Chinese Physics Letters, a research team from Peking University report their latest ...

Atomic-scale imaging reveals that chalcogen atoms play a crucial role in Cooper pairing in Fe-based superconductors, offering ...

Scientists have found a clever way to double the efficiency of thermoelectric materials — those that convert heat into ...

Crystal structure prediction seeks to identify the ... that map the atomic arrangement in a crystal lattice to its original positions. All crystals are classified into 230 distinct space groups.

A revolutionary solar material has hit 93.5% efficiency—rewriting the rules of solar power and challenging the dominance of ...

By fixing the conformation of these otherwise highly flexible molecules in the host material’s rigid crystal lattice, the X-ray structures of the molecules can be determined at atomic resolution.

Zinc sulphide exists with two different crystal structures, the cubic zinc blend (top diagram) and the hexagonal Wurtzite (lower diagram). In the zinc blend structure the sulphur ions form an fcc ...

The lattice structures of the two materials ... are so different that thermal vibrations cannot simply be transferred from one crystal to the other. Heat transfer is therefore strongly inhibited ...