Spherical indexing is very effective for samples where traditional indexing struggles, such as in highly deformed materials.

Once thought impossible, quasicrystals revealed a hidden order that challenges our understanding of materials. Their ...

Discovery of stable single-electron covalent bond in carbon compound validates a century-old theory Covalent bonds, in which two atoms are bound together by sharing a pair of electrons, ...

Prof. Dan Shechtman of the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology made the discovery that would later earn him the 2011 ...

Prof. Dan Shechtman of the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology made the discovery that would later earn him the 2011 ...

The short answer is; no. We will never see atoms using visible light, simply because the wavelength of visible light (around 400 to 700 nanometers) is larger than the size of an atom (around 0.1 to ...

Dr Aurora J. Cruz-Cabeza is a Professor of Materials Chemistry in our department of Chemistry, in the field of molecular crystals and crystallisation.

Multiferroic materials, in which electric and magnetic properties are combined in promising ways, will be the heart of new ...

RECENTLY, with the increase of the resolving power of the electron microscope ... of the fine structure in a crystal lattice, and the so-called selected area micro-diffraction method, when ...

National Engineering Research Center of Lower-Carbon Catalysis Technology, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, Liaoning, China University of Chinese ...

This culminated in our recent experiments using X-ray diffraction to look at irradiated quartz crystals ... For a given total dosage of neutron radiation, the amount of expansion in a quartz crystal ...