It conducts heat and electricity. It has a lustrous surface. At the atomic heart of metal is a crystalline structure—tightly packed atoms arranged in orderly rows. This feature explores this ...

Explore how the atomic structure of a metal determines its properties, such as conductivity and malleability, and how combining metals can create a new material with different properties.

Metals have advantages over many other substances for they are hard but can be reshaped. Their crystalline structure allows them to be 'worked' to make them stronger. Mark Miodownik describes the ...

However, when metals with different atomic sizes mix—for example, gold atoms that are 13.9% larger than nickel atoms—they create stress in the crystal structure. This stress forces the metals to ...

They found that, rather than transitioning from one atomic structure to another in a direct ... the process of the photo-induced insulator-to-metal transition in vanadium dioxide should be ...

Here we modulate the local atomic structure of a classical but inert transition metal oxide, tungsten trioxide, to be an efficient electrocatalyst for hydrogen evolution in acidic water ...

The materials, each consisting of two or more positively charged metal ions and oxygen ... "This ability to accommodate atomic disorder in their structure accounts for the tendency of some ...