Inside most of the Earth, olivine is a hot mineral whose creepy behavior drives plate tectonics. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. In ...

Electronic nematicity is a phase of some crystalline solids in which electrons' collective properties, such as charge or spin ...

Imperfections of crystal structure, especially edge dislocations of an elongated nature, deeply modify basic properties of the entire material and, in consequence, drastically limit its applications.

Researchers show that Cartan's First Structure Equation links crystal defects to the same mathematical rules governing electric currents and magnetic fields. (Nanowerk News) A fundamental goal of ...

Researchers in the lab of Asst. Prof. Tian Zhong of the UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, including postdoctoral researcher and first author Leonardo França (pictured), have explored ...

Dr. Mitsutaka Haruta (presently, in NIMS) and Assoc. Prof. Horoki Kurata (Institute for Chemical Research) demonstrated the direct observation of molecular column in organic crystals using a scanning ...

Researchers and industries have been using transmission electron microscopy (TEM) to study semiconductors' stacking and dislocation faults. This article considers the analysis of crystal structures.

Half-Heusler Ni-based alloys are thermoelectric materials with the potential for converting waste heat into electricity. However, the origin of their impressive conversion efficiency is not entirely ...

Researchers have explored a 'quantum-inspired' technique to make the 'ones' and 'zeroes' for classical computer memory applications out of crystal defects, each the size of an individual atom. This ...