Water ice permanently coats 10% of Earth’s land surface 1, and atmospheric ice clouds surround about half of the planet. Ice surfaces thus rank among the most ubiquitous interfaces in the natural ...

Crystalline alloys used in motors today lose some energy through heat, but glass-like metals could solve this engineering ...

Some materials behave unexpectedly. They crack differently than expected, or react in ways that are hard to explain. The ...

Researchers at UNIST, in collaboration with the Pohang Accelerator Laboratory (PAL) and KAIST, have introduced a novel ...

Crystallography is the science of analyzing the pattern produced by shining an X-ray beam through a material sample. A powder sample produces a different pattern than solid crystal. One longstanding ...

(Nanowerk News) When world-leading teams join forces, new findings are bound to be made. This is what happened when quantum physicists from the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) and the Max ...

What is Atom Probe Tomography? Atom Probe Tomography (APT) is a powerful analytical technique that provides three-dimensional (3D) imaging and chemical composition analysis of materials at the atomic ...

Scientists are exploring a new type of optical atomic clock based on ytterbium-173 ions that could help define the future ...

Researchers have used equipment originally intended for astronomy observation to capture transformations in the nuclear structure of atomic nuclei, reports a new study. A group of researchers have ...

Aluminum oxide or alumina is the fruit fly of materials science: thoroughly researched and well-understood. This compound, with the simple chemical formula Al 2 O 3, occurs frequently in Earth's crust ...