Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are a special group of porous solids, and today are regarded as one of the hottest new materials.
Washington State University researchers have met the long-standing scientific challenge of watching a material change its crystal structure in real time.
Gels are present in a variety of products used on a daily basis, but it has not been known how gels get their unique solid properties. For example, it is still a mystery why particles in the gel do not move freely, like they would in a liquid medium. For decades, scientists have been struggling to find answers to these questions.
Scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratory, Rice University and Northwestern University have worked towards enhancing the application of perovskite crystals in the booming solar power industry. This initiative was carried out by modifying their crystal manufacturing technique and producing a new variety of two-dimensional layered perovskite with exceptional strength and increased power transformation capability unlike the material’s earlier conversion efficiency.
Glasses are amorphous solids, meaning that they are neither fluids nor crystals. They are one of the greatest puzzles of condensed matter physics. How glass is formed has been a matter of debate over years. Is it due to the freezing of thermal motion of some regions? Or is it due to the clusters or particles which do not fit to produce a crystal?
The two key physical attributes that contribute to the brightness and colorfulness of a butterfly wing have been discovered by a team of scientists by visualizing its internal nanostructure.
For the first time, researchers from the RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics (RAP), have successfully induced permanent alterations in the polymer conformation using a terahertz laser, thereby providing it with an increased crystallization pattern.
There is a wide range of applications of crystals in various fields like physics, engineering, gemology or metallurgy.
Materials that react to dynamic loading can provide better protection to military convoys, reduce vibrations in vehicles, and can make buildings relatively safer during earthquakes.
Materials researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a new technique to deposit diamond on the surface of cubic boron nitride (c-BN), integrating the two materials into a single crystalline structure.
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