Crystalline materials news, February 2015

Improved plasmonic devices using the mid-infrared range

Novel material for efficient plasmonic devices in mid-IR range.

Symmetric solution

Hidden order revealed, cracking a cryo puzzle.

Revealing a new class of materials

Scientists used supercomputers to find a new class of materials that possess an exotic state of matter known as the quantum spin Hall effect.

Prof. David Srolovitz elected to the National Academy of Engineering

Content innovation: the Virtual Microscope

Welcome to the Virtual Microscope, the integrated browser based slide viewer that provides access to high resolution whole slide images.

Unlocking materials science data to support the materials genome initiative

Materials Today lead the way to make it simple for authors to publicly share peer-reviewed, curated, formatted, indexed, citable raw research data.

Elsevier lightens your research contest

We’re celebrating the International Year of Light with a video contest where we ask you to tell us what light means to you.

Moondust: a building material for a lunar base?

Researchers have created ceramics from lunar dust that could be used for structural applications on the moon.