Crystalline alloys used in motors today lose some energy through heat, but glass-like metals could solve this engineering ...

Pyrite, known as 'fool's gold,' is a mineral believed to attract wealth and financial opportunities. This crystal is thought ...

Researchers studying Mars uncovered something unusual hiding inside ancient Martian rocks: a new form of matter ...

Adding iron to a copper-based propellant MOF simultaneously solves its water stability problem and boosts laser propulsion ...

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UB chemist Jason Benedict and his team spent years developing photoswitchable crystals. Every crystal’s shape is a mirror of the internal arrangement of their molecules, but the molecules in ...

Duplicates of crystal structures are flooding databases, implicating repositories hosting organic, inorganic, and computer-generated crystals. The issue raises questions about curation practices at ...

Researchers made iron telluride into a superconducting thin film by reducing crystal distortion, enabling use in quantum chips at very low temperatures. (Nanowerk News) If quantum computing is going ...

Schematic of crystal structure of iron-telluride thin film grown on a cadmium telluride substrate, where lattice matching is achieved in groups of atoms. If quantum computing is going to become an ...

Plastics don’t just pollute oceans, they leach Invisible poisons that linger for years. Now, scientists have discovered that the crystal structure of natural iron minerals could determine how fast ...