(Nanowerk News) A multinational team of researchers, co-led by a City University of Hong Kong (CityU) physicist, has found that a novel metallic crystal displays unusual electronic behaviour on its ...

Crystals might look simple, but their growth tells a far more complex and fascinating story. From grains of salt to diamonds, crystals form when particles lock into repeating patterns. For many years, ...

Better glass-forming metals have sharper liquid-to-liquid phase transitions than average glass-forming metals.

THE three principal crystal structures of the metallic elements, the face-centred cubic (f.c.c), the body-centred cubic (b.c.c.) and the hexagonal close-packed (h.c.p.), follow a cyclic pattern as sub ...

Although occupation of dodecahedral cages by TBAB had not been previously reported, it was found that utilizing dodecahedral cages allows for higher packing density of TBAB. The results were shared in ...

X-ray diffraction shows that the high-pressure modifications (at 22 to 130 kilobars) of the antimonides of indium, gallium, and aluminum are analogous to white tin. The arsenide and phosphide of ...

Researchers at Texas A&M University have achieved a breakthrough by developing the world’s first metallic gel – a material ...

Crystal structure prediction (CSP) of organic molecules is a critical task, especially in pharmaceuticals and materials science. However, conventional methods are computationally intensive and ...