Lodged in a chunk of titanium, a single oxygen atom spurs extra defects in the metal’s atomic structure. Such flaws make titanium easy to shatter, scientists report in the Feb. 6 Science.

provide more direct information about the shape and composition of a material’s surface structure, as well as its surface chemistry and properties. These tools use an extremely sharp probe, sensitive ...

Bach, Nyman and the rest of the research team made several new tetraperoxo titanate structures -- a titanium atom coordinated ... "Our favorite carbon capture structure we discovered is potassium ...

Positioning a titanium atom above the center of hexagonally arranged ... The new results, obtained with a method for calculating the electronic structure of materials, surprised the researchers.