Theories must stand up to practical testing, and this is especially true in physics. Researchers from Johannes Gutenberg ...

So, scientists once thought quasicrystals might just be this kind of accidental arrangement. However, now, physicists at the ...

The challenge, however, is that this technique only works well when researchers have large, pure crystals. When they have to settle for a powder of minuscule pieces — called nanocrystals — the method ...

To apply the technique to crystallography, the scientists began with a dataset of 40,000 crystal structures and jumbled the atomic positions until they were indistinguishable from random placement.

This finding was important because the liquid crystal structures resulted in better OSC stability and efficiency when compared to cells fabricated using random aggregation pathways. Further ...

Next, using the equations of Crystal Math, the researchers applied their procedure to more complex molecular crystals, including highly flexible molecules, whose structures are not in the database ...

The research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , demonstrates the first experimental platform for studying how crystal structures respond when systematically and ...

The lenses, which use two layers of liquid crystal structures, could be useful for various applications such as optical interconnections, biological imaging, augmented/virtual reality devices and ...

The first crystal structure of an alternative DNA shape from the insulin gene has been revealed by a UCL-led research team. DNA is widely accepted to be formed of two strands that wind around one ...

My first experience with a crystal reads like a gangster movie. At 19, I was not contemplating marriage, but I realized that it was a possibility. I heard about “this guy” who sold diamonds ...

if you looked at a colloidal crystal through a microscope, you could only get a sense of its shape and structure of the surface. But we can now see inside and know the position of every unit in the ...

It is hard to coax electrons to form a crystal, and even harder to measure this structure. But physicists have now managed to directly image a “Wigner crystal” – and their images are the ...