Water is ubiquitous and seemingly ordinary, possessing no distinct color or odor. Though we often take water for granted, it ...

A research team has discovered that achiral hard banana-shaped particles can spontaneously form exotic structures like skyrmions and blue phase III phases. Skyrmions are tiny vortex-like structures ...

A research team has discovered that achiral hard banana-shaped particles can spontaneously form exotic structures like ...

Researchers transformed 2D kaolinite into 3D amorphous cement using chemical reactions in an alkaline medium. This breakthrough creates a sustainable, CO2-free alternative to traditional cement, ...

Two high-quality single-crystal sp²c-COFs have been developed, demonstrating the generality of this approach. This work addresses the bottleneck in synthesizing single-crystal COFs and provides ...

Tianjin Key Laboratory of Brine Chemical Engineering and Resource Ecoutilization, State Key Laboratory of Biobased Fiber Manufacturing Technology, College of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science ...

Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Dallas, 800 W Campbell Rd, Richardson, Texas 75080, United States ...

From stars to needles to amorphous globs, scientists are demystifying a snowflake’s complex construction, showing how factors such as temperature can influence their shape.

However, the low reversibility of olefin bonds impedes crystal self-correction, thus generating only polycrystalline or amorphous compounds instead of single crystals. In the study published in ...