In a study that elevates the role of entropy in creating order, new research shows that certain pyramid shapes can spontaneously organize into complex quasicrystals. In a study that elevates the role ...

a. Schematic diagram of aggregate structure in NaCl crystal. b. Schematic diagram of chemical structure in zwitterionic aggregate. c. Visualization of the inter- and intramolecular motion in ...

An ETH Zurich researcher has developed a computational method for predicting the structure of materials. He used it to solve the structure of a newly synthesized form of pure boron that displays some ...

Ionic crystals generally possess isotropic and close-packed structures and are unsuitable for creating nano-spaces. In this work, “porous ionic crystals” will be constructed by the use of molecular ...

The theory of the thermoelectric power of solid ionic conductors has been considered thermodynamically by Holtan, Mazur & de Groot (1953) and kinetically by Howard & Lidiard (1957a,b). In the ...

The interaction between solid matter and positron (the antiparticle of electron) has provided important insights across a variety of disciplines, including atomic physics, materials science, ...

One longstanding problem has sidelined life-saving drugs, stalled next-generation batteries, and kept archaeologists from identifying the origins of ancient artifacts. For more than 100 years, ...

More than 90 years ago, Linus Pauling published a set of five empirical principles explaining why ionic compounds form the crystal structures that they do. Those principles, now known as Pauling’s ...