Scientists uncovered rare hexagonal silicon forms (2H, 4H, 6H) created by stress and heat, challenging assumptions about this key electronic material.

In the nanometer range (billionth of a meter), interactions occur between light and matter that do not happen on larger ...

A team of physicists at the University of Cambridge has made a quantum sensing breakthrough by demonstrating the use of spin defects in hexagonal Boron Nitride (hBN) as powerful room-temperature ...

Crystals don't always grow the way we thought. A team of researchers has just discovered a new type of crystal that shatters ...

Some of the most promising materials for future technologies come in layers just one atom thick, such as graphene, a sheet of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice, prized for its exceptional ...

They discover that the topological properties of quasicrystals come from periodic patterns in 4D, revolutionizing optics and ...

The crystal structures of the enzyme from sweet potato in the resting dicupric Cu(II)-Cu(II) state, the reduced dicuprous Cu(I)-Cu(I) form, and in complex with the inhibitor phenylthiourea were ...

Shengxi Huang explains why Picoquant’s instruments are helping her to develop 2D materials that are highly efficient sources ...

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Contribution from the Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37232, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Concordia University, Montreal, ...

with changes in crystal structure more commonly leading to destruction of the parent crystal. However, the structural basis for such transitions is of considerable interest given the changes in ...