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Modeling crystal behavior: Towards answers in self-organization
The electrical and mechanical responses of crystal materials, and the control of their coupled effect, form one of the central themes in...
Sep 17, 20182 min read


Diamond dust enables low-cost, high-efficiency magnetic field detection
UC Berkeley engineers have created a device that dramatically reduces the energy needed to power magnetic field detectors, which could...
Sep 10, 20183 min read


MIT researchers 3-D print colloidal crystals
MIT engineers have united the principles of self-assembly and 3-D printing using a new technique, which they highlight today in the...
Sep 4, 20184 min read


Watching two-dimensional materials grow
They are among the thinnest structures on earth: "two dimensional materials" are crystals which consist of only one or a few layers of...
Aug 29, 20183 min read


Researchers reveal the growth of graphene near polycrystalline substrate grain boundaries
In a paper published in NANO, a team of researchers from the Laboratory of Graphene Mechanics (LogM), Zhejiang University has shown how...
Aug 27, 20182 min read


Getting a charge out of MOFs
MOFs - or metal-organic frameworks - are highly customizable porous network solids featuring cages that can come in many sizes and can...
Aug 25, 20183 min read
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