Crystalline materials news, October 2019

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Titanium plays host to dashing chains of atoms

Scientists have discovered that chains of atoms can dash around at lightning speeds inside the cubic phase of pure titanium.

31 October 2019

Electric current can simultaneously flow clockwise and counterclockwise in a ring of a polycrystalline material made from bismuth and palladium.

24 October 2019

Scientists have produced a heavy fermion material with superconducting regions coexisting alongside regions in a normal metallic state.

24 October 2019

A novel mathematical approach based on graph theory can predict which pairs of zeolite types can be transformed from one to the other.

23 October 2019

Researchers have developed an artificial, layered crystal composed of the elements lanthanum, titanium, cobalt and oxygen in atom-thick sheets.

21 October 2019

By simply adding a trace amount of copper, scientists have created the strongest ever silver without reducing its electrical conductivity.

18 October 2019

Scientists have discovered that the magic angle at which two layers of graphene become superconducting is slightly wider than originally thought.

18 October 2019

Researchers have found that a crystal made of cobalt, manganese and gallium is a room-temperature topological magnet that hosts quantum loops.

10 October 2019

Crystallographic dislocations can impact the ability of halide perovskites to hold energy derived from light in the form of excited electrons.

1 October 2019

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