Figure 1: Colloidal crystals on curved oil–glycerol interfaces. The topology of surfaces 21 places a constraint on the total defect charge—for example the net charge on a sphere must be 4π, as ...

For nearly a century, scientists have understood how crystalline materials—such as metals and semiconductors—bend without ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Researchers at the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have found that the crystal structure of silver nanoparticles is an ...

(Nanowerk News) The surface properties of complex crystalline materials can be calculated reliably and automatically using only the fundamental laws of physics, thanks to a new computer-based method.

Using hard X-ray photoemission spectroscopy, researchers revealed how oxygen vacancies and structural disorder influence subgap state formation. The figure shows the InGaZnO 4 crystal structure, the ...

The interaction of ultrasound with surface-breaking slots has been used to characterize the slots, with laser generation of ultrasound providing the short-duration Rayleigh pulses used as the probe.

A new study examining how ice forms from pure water found that the geometry of the surface that water is on can have an effect on whether or not it freezes, suggesting that surface geometry plays an ...

Scientists at UChicago PME develop a new atomic-scale data storage method Their approach uses crystal defects to store data as ones and zeroes Research combines quantum science, optical storage, and ...

Minuscule waves that propagate across atom -- thin layers of crystal could carry information, light, and heat in nanoscale devices. For the first time, the frequency and amplitude of these waves, ...