The brilliantly shiny diamond is more than just pretty; it's one of the hardest minerals on Earth, with a name derived from ...

Natural diamond, seen here, has a cubic packing structure. But a much rarer form of diamond has hexagonal packing and has now ...

A rare mineral from a 1724 meteorite defies the rules of heat flow, acting like both a crystal and a glass. Thanks to AI and ...

Crystal structures are common and familiar to us in substances such as salt, ice and sand. Scientists define them by their regular patterns and symmetry — the way the atoms and molecules are organized ...

For example, while slowly cooling a low-carbon (0.20% carbon) steel such as AISI 1020, transformation starts as the metal reaches 1,555°F.

The new semiconducting material, made from epitaxial graphene (a particular crystal structure of carbon chemically bonded to silicon carbide), allows for more mobility than silicon, meaning ...

Chinese scientists proposed a novel imine-to-olefin transformation strategy to synthesize single-crystal sp² carbon-linked covalent organic frameworks (sp²c-COFs).