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Nanoscale Tetrapods Could Provide Early Warning of a Material’s Failure
Light-emitting, four-armed nanocrystals could someday form the basis of an early warning system in structural materials by revealing...
Sep 20, 20163 min read


Fundamental discovery triggers paradigm shift in crystallography
A scientific breakthrough gives researchers access to the blueprint of thousands of molecules of great relevance to medicine and biology....
Sep 19, 20165 min read


Electrons at the speed limit
Speed may not be witchcraft, but it is the basis for technologies that often seem like magic. Modern computers, for instance, are as...
Aug 29, 20164 min read


Wi-fi from lasers
A nanocrystalline material that rapidly makes white light out of blue light has been developed by KAUST researchers. While Wi-Fi and...
Aug 15, 20162 min read


Hot new material found to exist in nature
One of the hottest new materials is a class of porous solids known as metal-organic frameworks, or MOFs. These man-made materials were...
Aug 8, 20163 min read


Microscope becomes gauge to measure forces within crystals
All materials found in nature – even the most “perfect” diamond – contain defects, since the atoms inside them are never arranged in...
Aug 2, 20163 min read
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