Every crystal’s shape is a mirror of the internal arrangement of their molecules, but the molecules in photoswitchable ...

Across the physical world, many intricate structures form via symmetry breaking. When a system with inherent symmetry ...

For many decades, the method to obtain atomic-level descriptions of chemical compounds and materials—be it a drug, a catalyst ...

Order doesn’t always form perfectly—and those imperfections can be surprisingly powerful. In materials like liquid crystals, ...

Researchers have taken a major step forward in studying time crystals—exotic materials with unusual, ...

Matlantis CSP has already produced early results across multiple systems—oxides, alloys, and phosphides—discovering more than 10 previously unknown stable crystals. In the Ga–Au–Ca system, it ...

Using a superconducting quantum computer, physicists created a large and complex version of an odd quantum material that has ...

These newly discovered spinning crystals twist, break, and heal themselves, revealing a strange new side of solid matter.

Something unusual keeps turning up in marine sediments. These are large crystals of magnetite, formed by biology rather than geology, and preserved fo.

Condensed-matter physics and materials science have a silo problem. Although researchers in these fields have access to vast amounts of data – from experimental records of crystal structures and ...

When materials become just one atom thick, melting no longer follows the familiar rules. Instead of jumping straight from solid to liquid, an unusual in-between state emerges, where atomic positions ...

Topological defects govern how many advanced materials behave, but predicting them has traditionally required slow, resource-intensive simulations. Researchers at Chungnam National University have ...