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New Study Categorizes Causes of Structural Asymmetry in Materials

You've heard the expression form follows function- In materials science, function follows form.

2 Jul 2020

New Approach to Find Intrinsically Low Thermal Conductivity in 1D Crystals

The low thermal transport properties are important for applications in thermoelectrics and thermal barrier coatings.

22 Jun 2020

New Findings on Crystallite Behavior can Help Optimize Magnetic Nanoparticles for Various Applications

Magnetic nanoparticles, a class of nanoparticles that can be manipulated by magnetic fields, have a wide range of technical and biomedical applications, including magnetic hyperthermia, targeted drug delivery, new magnetic storage media and nanorobots.

17 Jun 2020

Researchers Discover Ferroelectric Nematic Phase of Liquid Crystal

Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder's Soft Materials Research Center (SMRC) have discovered an elusive phase of matter, first proposed more than 100 years ago and sought after ever since.

11 Jun 2020

New Way to Spontaneously Induce Chirality in Crystalline, Liquid Substances

Chirality is a fundamental property of many organic molecules and means that chemical compounds can appear in not only one form, but in two mirror-image forms as well.

9 Jun 2020

Crystals Show Different Flipping Patterns Based on Light Polarity

Insights into a flipping crystal could further research into the development of autonomous robots.

14 May 2020

New, Unique Spinel Material Could Find Several Applications

Spinels are oxides with chemical formulas of the type AB2O4, where A is a divalent metal cation (positive ion), B is a trivalent metal cation, and O is oxygen.

5 May 2020

Single-Crystal Electrode Could Yield Pivotal Findings for Advanced Batteries

The diamonds and other crystals on view in science museum exhibits are a delight to the eye. What contributes to their sometimes dazzling geometric shapes and colors is their highly ordered arrangement of atoms.

5 May 2020