Scientists observe how blobs form crystals and discover a new type of crystal
Crystals - sugar and salt table with snowflakes and diamonds - do not always grow in a simple way. Researchers ...
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A new mechanism uses a photonic crystal to focus light on a chip
Concentrating light in a volume as small as the wavelength itself is a challenge that is crucial for many applications. ...
Chemist challenges traditional ideas about crystal growth
Remember that old high school chemistry experiment where salt crystals precipitate from a salt water solution – or maybe the ...
Researchers leverage liquid crystal structures to design simple yet versatile bifocal lenses
Researchers have developed a new type of bifocal lens that provides a simple way to obtain two foci (or spots) ...
Human genome stored on ‘eternal’ memory crystal
Scientists at the University of Southampton have stored the entire human genome on a 5D memory crystal, a revolutionary data ...
Study predicts new anomalous quantum crystal in fractionally packed moiré superlattices
Moiré superlattices, structures that arise when two layers of two-dimensional (2D) materials are superimposed with a small twist angle, have ...
Physicists develop a very robust time crystal
A team from TU University Dortmund recently succeeded in producing a very durable time crystal that lived millions of times ...
A ferroelectric dimeric liquid crystal with enormous spontaneous polarization and low-temperature dielectric constant
Within the Tokyo Tech LG Material & Life Solution collaborative research hub, a joint research team developed a ferroelectric dimer ...
Exploring the electrical tuning of branched flow in liquid crystal films
A new study in Natural communications studies the electrical tuning of branched light flux in nematic liquid crystal (NLC) films, ...
Engineers combine laser light with crystal lattice vibrations to improve optical properties of 2D material
Columbia University engineers and Max Planck Theoretical Collaborators for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter have discovered that combining laser ...
