The ultimate goal of materials scientists is to design and create materials with precise structures and tailored properties.

Mucic acid crystals grown from a water-based solution achieved a record-breaking stiffness for an organic crystal.

When scientists study how materials behave under extreme conditions, they typically examine what happens under compression. But what occurs when you pull matter apart in all directions simultaneously?

Imagine building a Lego tower with perfectly aligned blocks. Each block represents an atom in a tiny crystal, known as a quantum dot. Just like bumping the tower can shift the blocks and change its ...

Researchers have devised a mathematical approach to predict the structures of crystals -- a critical step in developing many medicines and electronic devices -- in a matter of hours using only a ...

Crystallography is the science of analyzing the pattern produced by shining an X-ray beam through a material sample. A powder sample produces a different pattern than solid crystal. One longstanding ...

Duplicates of crystal structures are flooding databases, implicating repositories hosting organic, inorganic, and ...

Dendritic structures that emerge during the growth of thin films are a major obstacle in large-area fabrication, a key step towards commercialization. However, current methods of studying dendrites ...

Startups flush with cash are building AI-assisted laboratories to find materials far faster and more cheaply, but are still ...