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New Hybrid Crystal Helps Create Tailored Materials with Innovative Properties

They are 50,000 times thinner than a human hair, and just a few atoms thick: two-dimensional materials are the thinnest substances it is possible to make today.

7 May 2021

Researchers Construct Isolated Active Sites In Porous Single-Crystalline Structures

Porous single-crystal monolithic catalytic materials offer the benefits of a clear lattice structure, long-range ordered lattice structure, precise chemical composition, disorderly interconnected pore structure, and clear surface composition.

22 Apr 2021

Crystals of Organic Molecules Have Ice-Forming Superpowers

At the heart of clouds are ice crystals. And at the heart of ice crystals, often, are aerosol particles - dust in the atmosphere onto which ice can form more easily than in the open air.

19 Mar 2021

Rigaku Crystallography School Established to Circumvent COVID-19 Restrictions

Rigaku has taken a pioneering role in establishing an online crystallography school delivered via Zoom.

From Rigaku Corporation 19 Mar 2021

New System Predicts Crystal Structures of Multi-Element Alloys with Expandable Features

Alchemy, which attempted to turn cheap metals such as lead and copper into gold, has not yet succeeded. However, with the development of alloys in which two or three auxiliary elements are mixed with the best elements of the times, modern alchemy can produce high-tech metal materials with high strength, such as high entropy alloys.

18 Mar 2021

Study Explains New Form of Crystalline Ice

Ice is an extremely multipurpose material. The oxygen atoms in ice cubes or snowflakes are arranged in a hexagonal pattern. An ice form like this is referred to as ice one (ice I).

19 Feb 2021

Researchers Discover a New Pathway to Form Complex Crystals

When materials reach extremely small size scales, strange things begin to happen. One of those phenomena is the formation of mesocrystals.

18 Feb 2021

New Liquid Crystals Mirror the Complex Structures of Some Solid Counterparts

A team at the University of Colorado Boulder has designed new kinds of liquid crystals that mirror the complex structures of some solid crystals--a major step forward in building flowing materials that can match the colorful diversity of forms seen in minerals and gems, from lazulite to topaz.

11 Feb 2021

Samara Polytech Scientists Develop Methods to Simplify Crystal Structures

Science always strives to replace complex natural objects and phenomena with simpler models. Scientists of Samara Center for Theoretical Materials Science (SCTMS) of Samara Polytech have developed methods to simplify the crystal structure of a substance to obtain chemically important knowledge. The main approaches are described in the article published in the Structural Chemistry journal IF 2.081 (doi:10.1007/s11224-020-01724-4).

10 Feb 2021

New Flexible Crystal may Lead to More Efficient Bendable Electronics

Headed by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), a research team has designed a novel material that can flex and bend 40 times more than its competitors when an electric current is applied on it, paving the way to more improved micro machines.

8 Feb 2021

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