By stacking custom-designed silver nanoparticles like nanoscale LEGO bricks, scientists stabilized a mysterious crystal phase that had never been observed before. The material not only solves a ...
AMES, Iowa – When Valery Levitas left Europe in 1999, he packed up a rotational diamond anvil cell and brought it to the United States. He and the researchers in his group are still using a ...
Alumina (Al2O3) exhibits a complex array of polymorphs whose transformations are driven by temperature, pressure and mechanical stress. Precursor hydroxides such as gibbsite and boehmite dehydrate ...