MIT physicists have made an exciting discovery: in an ultra-thin material, electrons can form crystal-like structures, acting like tiny frozen blocks of energy. This unexpected finding adds to a ...

Electrons in rhombohedral pentalayer graphene form unexpected crystalline states, revealing new quantum behaviors and ...

Geochemical evidence from laboratory experiments for a potential solid inner core at the center of Mars is reported in Nature ...

In the race to meet the growing global demand for lithium -- a critical component in batteries for electric vehicles -- a team of researchers has developed a breakthrough lithium extraction method ...

Explore the new material that transforms from solid to liquid on demand, revolutionizing technology in various fields.

High-pressure experiments generated the first direct observation of plastic ice, which has qualities of both crystalline ice and liquid water.

Astronomers for the first time have deciphered the three-dimensional structure of the atmosphere of a planet beyond our solar ...

This finding confirms that quasicrystals are shaped by hidden higher-dimensional physics, not just random patterns. A quasiperiodic crystal (also called quasicrystal) is a solid material with an ...

Porous organic crystals with superior properties as CO2 adsorbents were created by researchers at Institute of Science Tokyo. Owing to the novel 2.5-dimensional skeleton, the materials feature ...

Polymorphism is the presence of several different forms of the same solid material. It means that compounds of this type may have more than one crystal structure. (1) Due to differences in their intra ...