Crystals are supposed to be hard and brittle. But when we make them bendy, they help reveal the secrets of how elastic ...

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

A research team has developed a groundbreaking method for synthesizing perovskite nanocrystals (PNCs), a next-generation semiconductor material, in a more uniform and efficient manner. This study is ...

Scientists have discovered a way to use single missing atoms in crystals as memory cells, packing terabytes of data into a ...

Researchers have identified the origin of the restoring force that lets elastic crystals return to their original shape.

Department of Chemistry, Chemistry Research Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3TA, United Kingdom ...