Crystals -- from sugar and table salt to snowflakes and diamonds -- don't always grow in a straightforward way. New York University researchers have ...

Crystal formation follows a two-step process: messy, shapeless clumps of particles, or amorphous blobs, first come together ...

One longstanding problem has sidelined life-saving drugs, stalled next-generation batteries, and kept archaeologists from ...

Researchers explored a colloidal crystal model to produce specific polymorphs, required for use in materials science and pharmaceuticals.

Thanks to the crystal structure of diamonds, with carbon atoms arranged into a lattice-like structure, diamond is top of the hardness scale, which is why it is used to cutting and drilling, as well as ...

The diamond’s atomic structure is a crucial distinction in ... with regulated purity and crystalline orientation. Single-crystal CVD diamonds have outperformed their polycrystalline counterparts ...

TOKYO, April 8, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Orbray Co., Ltd., has successfully developed a radiation detector utilizing its proprietary high-quality, large-diameter single-crystal diamond technology. The ...

Credit: J. Wang/NIST A traditional crystal is any solid made of atoms or molecules in repeating patterns. Table salt is a common crystal, for example. Salt's atoms connect to make cubes, and those ...

Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Food Quality and Safety, College of Food Science, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China ...