The discovery of a crystal whose atoms are packed in a pattern that never repeats has won Israeli scientist Daniel Shechtman the 2011 Nobel Prize in chemistry. The structures in quasicrystals, as they ...

Because liquid crystals are similar to oil, the surfactants were attracted to the liquid crystal shells, causing the molecules to order in different ways and create striking patterns. The more soap ...

A time crystal is a form of matter that shows continuous, repeating patterns over time, much like how atoms in a normal ...

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Vol. 218, No. 1133 (Jun. 25, 1953), pp. 255-268 (18 pages) The exact relationship between molecular ...

British developer CystalMaker Software on Tuesday announced the release of CrystalDiffract 5.0, the newest version of its software “for visualizing and understanding x-ray and neutron powder ...

Researchers have demonstrated a technique for mapping deformation in metals that can recover destroyed serial numbers on metal objects such as firearms, a common challenge in forensics. Researchers at ...

Rice University researchers used a focused electron beam to pattern device functions with submicron precision directly into ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Calcium oxalate crystal types and distribution within leaves of Prunus sensu lato (Rosaceae; Prunoideae) were surveyed from mostly herbarium ...

(Nanowerk News) When Lisa Tran set out to investigate patterns in liquid crystals, she didn't know what to expect. When she first looked through the microscope, she saw dancing iridescent spheres with ...

Because the electron beam spot is so fine, the patterns reached scales of only a few hundreds of nanometers across. That ...