Crystals are supposed to be hard and brittle. But when we make them bendy, they help reveal the secrets of how elastic ...

Australian scientists have gained new insights into the fundamental behavior of flexible materials, allowing for the design of new building materials and technology.

Once thought impossible, quasicrystals revealed a hidden order that challenges our understanding of materials. Their ...

Experts hope the minerals they find via this method will “power green, renewable energy sources for a sustainable future.” ...

Researchers have explored a 'quantum-inspired' technique to make the 'ones' and 'zeroes' for classical computer memory applications out of crystal defects, each the size of an individual atom. This ...

Prof. Dan Shechtman of the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology made the discovery that would later earn him the 2011 ...

The study reports the discovery of topological electronic crystals in twisted bilayer -- trilayer graphene, a system created by introducing a precise rotational twist between stacked two ...