Scientists uncovered rare hexagonal silicon forms (2H, 4H, 6H) created by stress and heat, challenging assumptions about this key electronic material.

OxStu explores how the structure of glass makes it ubiquitous in everyday life and why we are still exploring its use.

The discovery hinges on a rising technique in modern physics called “twistronics,” where layers of materials are contorted at ...

Spherical SiO2 particles were prepared by a novel co-precipitation process improved by electrolyte NaCl for charging and further self-assembled into photonic crystal by vertical deposition method. The ...

A joint research team led by Yuuki Kubo and Shiji Tsuneyuki of the University of Tokyo has developed a new computational method that can efficiently determine the crystal structures of multiphase ...

The method successfully reproduced the distinctive crystal structures of both carbon (graphite and diamond) and silicon dioxide (low-quartz, low-cristobalite, and coesite). It worked. However ...

In one dramatic example of the necessity of predicting crystal structures, scientists in the late 1990s discovered that capsules of the HIV drug ritonavir later transformed from the known crystal ...

The research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , demonstrates the first experimental platform for studying how crystal structures respond when systematically and ...

Researchers at the University of Southampton in the UK have once again demonstrated the incredible storage capabilities of their five-dimensional (5D) memory crystal ... voids in a glassy material ...