Charge density waves in metals accumulate defects and melt much like physical solids, a behavior that could be harnessed for ...

A team of scientists has uncovered a crystal that can be reshaped and programmed using ordinary light, opening a new path for ...

For scientists and engineers, the best way to understand a new or unknown material--whether it's an alloy, a pharmaceutical or a meteorite--is to delve into its atoms. Techniques such as X-ray ...

Chinese researchers have discovered a peculiar crystal growth pattern in the lunar samples from the Chang'e-5 mission. Specifically, chromite nanocrystals can grow outward from the surface of olivine ...

Scientists observe a visible time crystal for the first time, revealing a phase of matter that repeats patterns through time.

Researchers have demonstrated a technique for mapping deformation in metals that can recover destroyed serial numbers on metal objects such as firearms, a common challenge in forensics. Researchers at ...

(Nanowerk News) When Lisa Tran set out to investigate patterns in liquid crystals, she didn't know what to expect. When she first looked through the microscope, she saw dancing iridescent spheres with ...

The discovery of a crystal whose atoms are packed in a pattern that never repeats has won Israeli scientist Daniel Shechtman the 2011 Nobel Prize in chemistry. The structures in quasicrystals, as they ...