Particles made of an organic polymer core covered in DNA molecules can come together to form a material with properties of both a crystal and a liquid.
23 December 2021
By incorporating soft joints, researchers have created a new type of porous, carbon-based crystals that can stretch to more than twice their length.
21 December 2021
Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) can be made ‘active’ by ball milling at extremely low temperatures
20 December 2021Cordelia Sealy
Researchers have discovered that a novel liquid crystalline cholesteric compound has the shortest known pitch.
16 December 2021
Researchers have used electron energy loss spectroscopy to investigate the effect of heating on the grain boundaries of a polycrystal in nanoscale detail.
15 December 2021
For the first time, researchers have synthesized a paracrystalline diamond, which forms a bridge between crystalline and amorphous structures.
7 December 2021
Sunlight can contract the space between atomic layers in 2D perovskites, improving the material’s photovoltaic efficiency by up to 18%.
2 December 2021