Chemists are investigating the bizarre properties of certain materials that could be used to develop oxygen safety systems ...

Quasicrystals, once considered impossible, were found in a 3D-printed aluminum alloy – and they make it stronger. This could ...

Each mineral type has a specific crystal structure, so they will show up differently ... That means we can identify minerals using how they appear in doubly polarized light under a microscope!

In 2017, a team at HRL Laboratories, based in California, and UC Santa Barbara discovered a high-strength aluminum alloy that could be 3D printed. They found that adding zirconium to the aluminum ...

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have discovered something surprising that could ...

To confirm they had a quasicrystal, Iams had to carefully rotate the crystal under the microscope and show that it also had threefold symmetry and twofold symmetry from two different angles.

To confirm they had a quasicrystal, Iams had to carefully rotate the crystal under the microscope and show that it also had threefold symmetry and twofold symmetry from two different angles. “Now that ...

The quasicrystals found in this study form the corners of 20-sided shape called an icosahedron. To prove that he found an icosahedron, Andrew Iams had ...