A new design strategy provides a highly general framework that can be applied to the self-assembly of crystalline or fluid materials.
23 May 2017
By heating ethene in stages on a rhodium catalyst substrate, scientists have managed to convert it to layers of graphene.
19 May 2017
Scientists have succeeded in making the first chiral molecular sieves for distinguishing left- and right-handed versions of molecules.
17 May 2017
There will be four awards of $2,000 each for Acta Materialia, Scripta Materialia and Acta Biomaterialia.
11 May 2017
A new model can account for irregularities in how atoms in materials such as metals arrange themselves at so-called ‘grain boundaries’.
9 May 2017
Using simplified proteins known as peptoids, scientists have discovered that a minor change in structure can alter the crystallization pathway.
4 May 2017
Molecular crystal lattice made up of fullerene molecules called fullerite has outstanding stiffness and hardness.
3 May 2017Cordelia Sealy
Scientists have successfully synthesized two new magnetic materials predicted by high-throughput computational models.
3 May 2017