A long-standing mystery in materials science is beginning to unravel as researchers directly probe the hidden atomic ...

Researchers with the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, have created an innovative method to visualize and analyze atomic structures ...

Materials called relaxor ferroelectrics have been used for decades in technologies like ultrasounds, microphones, and sonar ...

Aaron Rossini of Iowa State and Ames National Laboratory with the nuclear magnetic resonance instrument in his Hach Hall lab. Iowa State University/Christopher Gannon. Iowa State's Aaron Rossini has ...

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 ...

A team led by scientists at the National Graphene Institute (NGI) at The University of Manchester has developed the first technique capable of capturing atomic‑resolution videos of individual gold ...

Accelerator-based high-energy electron diffraction determines 3D atomic structure of materials New method using ultrashort ...

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 ...

The intermediate range order of covalent glasses has been extensively studied in terms of the first sharp diffraction peak (FSDP), but the direct observation of the atomic density fluctuations that ...

Scientists in the US have rewritten the rules of materials discovery after creating a ...