The knots in your shoelaces are familiar, but can you imagine knots made from light, water, or from the structured fluids ...

Imagine a clock that doesn’t have electricity, but its hands and gears spin on their own for all eternity. In a new study, physicists at CU Boulder have used liquid crystals, the same materials that ...

Nanotechnology and nanoscience are dynamic and evolving fields, presenting versatile applications across various sectors, from electronics to cosmetic products 1 They address the basic study of atomic ...

The brilliantly shiny diamond is more than just pretty; it's one of the hardest minerals on Earth, with a name derived from the Greek word adámas, meaning unbreakable. Scientists have now engineered a ...

The green chemical reduction process was used to synthesize CuO microparticles (MPs) (Izwanie et al., 2019). To do this, 0.1 M copper (II) sulfate pentahydrate solution was added to 1.44 g of starch ...

The new method can determine crystal structures underlying experimental data thus far difficult to analyze. A joint research team led by Yuuki Kubo and Shiji Tsuneyuki of the University of Tokyo has ...

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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 ...

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?

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