A team of researchers has developed a novel method for using cholesteric liquid crystals in optical microcavities. The ...

Chirality refers to two versions of a structure – be that light, molecules or crystals – that are almost identical but cannot ...

You can come across a bunch of Chiral Crystals while delivering orders in Death Stranding 2, and it's important to farm and ...

A new tunable plasmonic biosensor is proposed by embedding liquid crystals in the slit region of a corrugated plasmonic nanoslit array. The absorption spectrum of the structure and, thus, the sensing ...

Unlock the hidden potential of crystals by understanding their shapes. Each form, from pointed generators to raw, unpolished ...

Brookhaven National Laboratory have designed a new way to convert abundant carbon dioxide (CO2) into formate (HCO2-), an ...

Metal 3D printing continues to advance, particularly in the reinforcement of parts for the aerospace and automotive industries. Recently, researchers highlighted a discovery in 3D-printed aluminum ...

Researchers at NIST discovered quasicrystals, rare, non-repeating atomic structures, in 3D-printed aluminum alloys. These quasicrystals were found to strengthen the metal, making it more suitable for ...

Feb 12, 2025: Breakthrough in conductive polymers: New polymer crystal conducts electricity like a metal (Nanowerk News) An international research team, including scientists from the TUD Dresden ...

Their colors come from the same metal in their atomic structure Published: February 4 , 2025 8 ... Beryl’s crystal structure is more complicated than corundum’s because of the ...

We propose an optimized structure for a humidity-sensing colorimetric sensor that utilizes a metal-organic framework to form a one-dimensional photonic crystal. The structure changes spectral ...

The quasiparticle, called a semi-Dirac fermion, was first theorized 16 years ago, but was only recently spotted inside a crystal of semi-metal material called ZrSiS.