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Nanocrystals Get Better When They Double Up With MOFs
Out of the box, crystalline MOFs (metal-organic frameworks) look like ordinary salt crystals. But MOFs are anything but ordinary crystals...
Jan 10, 20194 min read
Chemists create new quasicrystal material from nanoparticle building blocks
The strange class of materials known as quasicrystals has a new member. In a paper published on Thursday, Dec. 20, in Science,...
Dec 20, 20184 min read
Disordered crystals are promising for future battery technology
Tiny, disordered particles of magnesium chromium oxide may hold the key to new magnesium battery energy storage technology, which could...
Dec 19, 20183 min read
Borophene Advances as 2-D Materials Platform
Borophene—two-dimensional (2-D) atom-thin-sheets of boron, a chemical element traditionally found in fiberglass insulation—is anything...
Dec 10, 20185 min read
Iron-Rich Lamellae in the Semiconductor
HZDR researchers produce unusual crystal structure There is often a pronounced symmetry when you look at the lattice of crystals: it...
Dec 10, 20183 min read
Capturing the surprising flexibility of crystal surfaces
Images taken using an atomic force microscope have allowed researchers to observe, for the first time, the flexible and dynamic changes...
Dec 3, 20182 min read
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