Understanding how molecular arrangements within crystals influence their thermal behavior is a fundamental question in ...

Centrosymmetric crystals have always absorbed equal amounts of left- and right-handed circularly polarized light—until now ...

Chemistry Crystal-hunting DeepMind AI could help discover new wonder materials. We know of around 48,000 inorganic crystal structures, which provide materials with a range of properties.

The very structure of crystals provided scientists with a way of taking their first peek into the atomic world in the early 1910s. That’s when William and Lawrence Bragg, father and son ...

For example the crystal structure of a medicine can affect whether the pill you take dissolves in your stomach or not, and the crystal structure in chocolate can significantly affect its taste. These ...

In one dramatic example of the necessity of predicting crystal structures, scientists in the late 1990s discovered that capsules of the HIV drug ritonavir later transformed from the known crystal ...

Only 13 % of oxide crystal structures obey 4 of the 5 rules simultaneously. ... Chemical & Engineering News will not share your email address with any other person or company.

Two-dimensional polymers can serve to organize chemical functionality periodically over large areas, but their rational synthesis has remained limited. Now, a free-standing, single-layer polymer ...

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) and the University of Oxford have shown that terahertz light can induce chirality in a non-chiral crystal ...

Winners in various categories will be able to choose between cash prizes or hands-on magnetic science models that kids can manipulate to learn about crystal structures. During the competition, ...