Bismuth, a puzzling material in quantum research, has now revealed a surprising twist. Kobe University scientists discovered that its surface properties can obscure its true nature, challenging a ...

Scientists have successfully synthesized lonsdaleite, a hexagonal diamond 40% harder than diamond, after 50 years of attempts ...

Center for Functional Nanoscale Materials, Department of Chemistry, Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia 30314, United States ‡ Department of Chemistry, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, ...

A new material called glafene, created from graphene and quartz glass, is characterized by unique electronic behavior and ...

Dezeen Showroom: designer Tom Fereday used hand-cast crystal glass and carved solid stone to craft this soft-edged, ...

These fundamental findings offer a novel mechanism by which rubrerythrin tubules encapsulate encapsulin to prevent oxidative stress in Pyrococcus furiosus. However, there are a few reasonable concerns ...

Researchers engineered a quantum material with superconducting and topological traits, opening the door to ultra-efficient ...

A research team led by physicists Ming Yi and Emilia Morosan from Rice University has developed a new material with unique ...

Strontium titanate was once used as a diamond substitute in jewelry before less fragile alternatives emerged in the 1970s.

In the nanometer range (billionth of a meter), interactions occur between light and matter that do not happen on larger ...

Ahead of Norman Foster’s 90th birthday, the AJ has compiled a selection of nine celebrated projects from the architect’s ...

† Department of Chemistry, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, People’s Republic of China ‡ Department of Chemistry, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming 650500, People’s Republic of China § ...