Diamond is the hardest mineral on Earth. This fact would likely pass muster at your local trivia night, but scientists ...

Superconductivity is a widely sought after material property, which entails an electrical resistance of zero below a specific critical temperature. So far, it has been observed in various materials, ...

For instance, carbon-derived materials like graphene are ... It is this composite structure that gives MAC its characteristic toughness, suggesting that a composite design approach could be ...

A new publication by researchers from the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford shows that the relationship between water temperature and the main biological mechanism by which ...

The image shows an atomic-scale visualization of monolayer amorphous carbon's structure, displaying a network of irregularly arranged carbon atoms (shown by the red lattice lines) with varying bond ...

National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, School of Physics and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China Fisika Aplikatua Saila, ...

Key Laboratory of Precision and Intelligent Chemistry, CAS Key Laboratory of Materials for Energy Conversion, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of ...

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Aluminum is a good conductor of electricity, with a conductivity of approximately 62 % that of copper by equal cross-sectional area. This efficiency is due to its atomic structure, which allows for ...

which show optical activity and spin-selective transport dependent on the chiral lattice structures. In situ high-resolution electron microscopy reveals that an electrically controlled metal-to ...

Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) image of the R250R carbon black. (Image: Reprinted from DOI:10.1002/admi.201901956, CC BY) ...