Before trinitite, the only known naturally formed quasicrystal came from meteorite fragments, likely produced during a ...

“Extreme, transient conditions produced by nuclear detonations can generate solid-state phases inaccessible to conventional ...

Researchers with the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, have created an innovative method to visualize and analyze atomic structures ...

Blast yields new crystal: Researchers found a unique calcium–copper–silicon clathrate in red trinitite from the Trinity ...

Crystallography is the science of analyzing the pattern produced by shining an X-ray beam through a material sample. A powder sample produces a different pattern than solid crystal. One longstanding ...

Researchers have created an innovative method to visualize and analyze atomic structures within specially designed, ultrathin bilayer 2D materials. (Nanowerk News) Researchers with the Oak Ridge ...

Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory made a big leap in their research into all things small. Within the past few months, scientists there began using what they say is the world’s most ...

Two families of grain boundary structures first discovered in copper were investigated in a range of fcc metals via atomistic computer simulations. The “domino” (red) and “pearl” (blue) motifs were ...

Aaron Rossini of Iowa State and Ames National Laboratory with the nuclear magnetic resonance instrument in his Hach Hall lab. Iowa State University/Christopher Gannon. Iowa State's Aaron Rossini has ...

On the left is an artistic depiction of a twisted double layer forming a moiré pattern created by overlapping 2D sheets; each layer’s structure is shown separately on the right. Researchers with the ...