A team at the University of Colorado Boulder has designed new kinds of liquid crystals that mirror the complex structures of some solid crystals—a major step forward in building flowing materials that ...

In ordinary materials, electrons move too quickly for their negative electric charges to affect their interactions. But at low temperatures and densities, they can be made to crystallize into an ...

New kinds of liquid crystals resemble gypsum or lazulite crystals -- except that they flow like fluids. A team at the University of Colorado Boulder has designed new kinds of liquid crystals that ...

For more than a century, schoolbook physics has divided matter into neat categories like solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. A ...

The latest time crystal innovation may expand the known boundaries of quantum mechanics. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

(Nanowerk News) Solid materials are generally known to be rigid and unmoving, but scientists are turning this idea on its head by exploring ways to incorporate moving parts into solids. This can ...

To make a solid crystal, molecules are generally so tightly packed together there's no room for any movement. It means that solid crystals -- despite their strength and durability -- have generally ...

image: Many substances with different chemical and physical properties, from diamonds to graphite, are made up of carbon atoms. Amorphous forms of solid carbon do not have a fixed crystal structure ...

Piezoelectric materials, particularly single crystals and engineered solid solutions, play a pivotal role in modern sensing and actuation technologies. Their inherent ability to convert mechanical ...