Porous crystalline solids, including metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), covalent-organic frameworks (COFs), hydrogen-bonded ...

The detailed structure of glass has always been a mystery in science. A research team has now discovered that the amorphous and crystalline metallic glass have the same structural building blocks. And ...

April 3 (UPI) --In a series of experiments, scientists at Northern Arizona University used a laser beam to propagate, trap and later access long-lived sound waves inside specially designed crystalline ...

One of the most important things to know regarding fused silica and quartz is that they both primarily consist of silica, also known as silicon dioxide. Silica is the primary constituent of most types ...

Previously, only amorphous polymer materials approached such levels of performance. On the other hand, these “gigantic respiration” and their respiration, which takes place at constant overall shape, ...

Crystals all the way down: An artistic rendering of a time crystal. (Courtesy: Google Quantum AI) Crystalline solids such as diamond have a hallmark property: their structure is periodic in space. For ...