A team of scientists from two universities in China have synthesized a material harder than diamond in the laboratory. When ...

Using a novel surface-sensitive spectroscopy method, scientists explored atomic vibrations in crystalline material surfaces near interfaces. The findings illuminate quantum behaviors that play ...

Once thought impossible, quasicrystals revealed a hidden order that challenges our understanding of materials. Their ...

Prof. Dan Shechtman of the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology made the discovery that would later earn him the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: the quasiperiodic crystal. According to diffraction ...