AET has previously been used to image 3D crystal defects (such as dislocations, stacking faults, grain boundaries, chemical order/disorder and point defects) in materials at the single-atom level.

nearly perfect cube of silver onto a hard target turns its single-crystal microstructure into a gradient-nano-grained (GNG) structure. Scientists at Rice University are smashing metallic micro ...

The researchers are the first to observe metallic lines in a perovskite ... composition of elements as the host crystal, the changes in electronic band structure at the dislocation core, due ...

Here we discover that mechanical deformations provide a route to switching thermodynamic stability between a semiconducting and a metallic crystal structure in these monolayer materials.

Unfortunately, typical metallic luster materials cause environmental ... The team attributed this to the unique crystal structure of DS-DA1 with two coexisting assembled states, revealing that ...