Thermoelectric materials offer a promising way to produce electricity from heat, but scientists need a better understanding of these materials' properties and how to control them. Researchers used a ...

Crystalline structures such as body-centered cubic (BCC) and face-centered cubic (FCC) arrangements are known for their efficient use of space and load distribution. ... Schematic showing cubic ...

Since the crystal lattices of the two layers are no longer exactly on top of each other, a kind of beating effect occurs: just as two sound waves with slightly different frequencies lead to a slow ...

Above 177° C and over roughly 30,000 bars — about 28 times the pressure at the deepest point in Earth’s oceans — Bove’s team observed a phase of ice that possessed a cubic crystal lattice ...

In April 1982, Prof. Dan Shechtman of the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology made the discovery that would later earn him the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: the quasiperiodic crystal.

In a sodium chloride crystal, the sodium and chlorine ions arrange themselves in a repeating pattern known as a lattice. Specifically, NaCl forms a “face-centered cubic” (FCC) lattice structure.

The atomic structure of the above-mentioned pyrite crystal. Image via Wiki Commons. The repeating lattice not only defines the internal structure of the crystal but also influences its macroscopic ...

Relative to face-centered cubic (FCC) and body-centered cubic (BCC) metals and alloys, HCP metals and alloys show some distinct characteristics, such as anisotropic microstructure, few slip systems, ...

In this way, Rosseinsky and colleagues calculated the crystal structures for several inorganic compounds, including rather complex mineral phases such as spinel (MgAl 2 O 4) and garnet (Ca 3 Al 2 Si 3 ...