Gazing Into Crystal Balls to Advance Understanding of Nucleation
Crystallization is the physical phenomenon of the transformation of disordered molecules in a liquid or gas phase into a highly ordered solid crystal through two…
Crystals
Research Into the Mysteries of Crystal Growth Reveals Key Molecular Events
Controlling crystal growth for innovations in medicine, engineering. While crystals have been studied for centuries and are ubiquitous in daily life — they are in…
Ion Crystal Set to Power Quantum Simulator
Quantum computers are getting closer to reality as scientists created the ion crystal that will allow this quantum simulator to perform calculations that eclipses the…
Iron-Based Crystal Superconductor Breaks High-Temperature Record
Superconductivity, a phenomenon that works only at temperatures close to absolute zero, has been proven to work at higher temperatures, as much as 70 kelvin….
Anthrax Decontamination Foam Used for Meth Lab Cleanup
Sandia has found another use for their decontamination foam that was used to decontaminate federal office buildings and mailrooms during the 2001 anthrax attacks. Researchers…
‘Collapsing’ Iron Superconductor Capable of Operating at 47 Degrees Kelvin
A team of researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Maryland discovered an iron-based superconductor capable of operating at…
Researchers Develop Method for Making High-Temperature Photonic Crystals
Researchers at MIT have developed a new power source by making a high-temperature version of materials called photonic crystals. By using metals such as tungsten…
Scientists Discover Nano-Crystal (Cluster) of PbS
A team of scientists from John Hopkins University and McNeese State University have determined that when 32 units of lead sulfide, PbS, molecules assemble together,…
Unlocking the Secrets of Snowflakes’ Shapes
The above photo is one of the many Snowflake photos taken by Kenneth Libbrecht of CalTech with a special snowflake photomicroscope showing snow crystals from…