Crystallographic defects or irregularities (known as dislocations) are often found within crystalline materials. Two main types of dislocation exist: edge and screw type. However, dislocations found in real materials tend ...
Materials Science
Oct 20, 2014
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Minerals that endure in nature for millions of years are inspiring a Clemson University-led research team to explore whether new materials could be developed to encase nuclear waste for safe storage.
Energy & Green Tech
Oct 14, 2014
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Patterned surfaces are all the rage among researchers seeking to induce surfaces to repel water or adhere to other things, or to modify materials' electrical properties.
Condensed Matter
Sep 1, 2014
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(Phys.org) —For the last century, the concept of crystals has been a mainstay of solid-state physics. Crystals are paragons of order; crystalline materials are defined by the repeating patterns their constituent atoms and ...
Condensed Matter
Jul 7, 2014
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Pour sand from a bucket and it flows like a liquid, but stand on it and it supports weight like a solid. This unusual behavior is a property of granular materials, and it is one of the reasons Heinrich Jaeger, the William ...
Condensed Matter
Feb 14, 2014
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(Phys.org) —A team of researchers made up materials scientists and chemists from several institutions in California has developed a new group of polymers that can be caused to come about using solid-state polymerization ...
When scientists found electrical current flowing where it shouldn't be – at the place where two insulating materials meet– it set off a frenzy of research that turned up more weird properties and the hope of creating ...
General Physics
Sep 13, 2013
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(Phys.org) —Work by a team of chemical engineers at Penn State and Rice University may lead to a new class of inexpensive organic solar cells.
Nanomaterials
Aug 22, 2013
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University of Oregon chemist David C. Johnson likens his lab's newly published accomplishments to combining two flavors of ice cream—vanilla and chocolate—and churning out thousands of flavors to appeal to any taste bud.
Materials Science
Jul 31, 2013
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(Phys.org) —An alternative and novel concept in electronics is to utilize the wave quantum number of the electron in a crystalline material to encode information. In a new article in Nature Materials, Isberg et.al. propose ...
Quantum Physics
Jul 22, 2013
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