I LOVE unexpected finds! I went out searching for 40 million year old fossil sea urchins and sand dollars, and I ended up ...

I never thought I'd stoop so low as to cook crystals in the oven... HAHA! Just kidding, this is just a way to get these calcite crystals looking GOOD! These are the calcite crystals I found in my most ...

WE have applied optical interference methods to the examination of cleavage faces of a number of calcite crystals using both multiple-beam Fizeau fringes 1 and fringes of equal chromatic order 2 ...

Since crystal orientation within rock fabric may be used to infer geologic settings, we present here a complementary Raman method to study the orientation of calcite (CaCO3) and dolomite [CaMg (CO3)(2 ...

From nanoscale friction measurements on smooth and rough calcite crystals, a set of parameters is analyzed to elucidate microscopic processes dictating RSF. We infer the influence of roughness on the ...

The Earth and Planetary Materials Science, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, 6-3, Aoba, Aramaki, Aoba, Sendai, 980-8578, Japan, Institute for Materials ...

Semiconductor nanowires (NWs) often exhibit efficient, broadband light absorption despite their relatively small size. This characteristic originates from the subwavelength dimensions and high ...