Scientists define them by their regular patterns and symmetry — the way ... Some molecules can crystallize in as many as a dozen or so different forms, Szalewicz said. “Investigations of crystal ...

Dan Shechtman of the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology made the discovery that would later earn him the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: the quasiperiodic crystal. According to diffraction ...

Scientists at the University of Michigan have unlocked a long-standing mystery about quasicrystals exotic materials that ...

For each diffraction pattern, the model generates several ... be used to generate new materials that have radically different crystal structures and physical properties, even though their chemical ...

The first is that patterns at two different sizes (length-scale ... this model can also form other observed regular crystal structures such as hexagons, body-centered cubes and so on.

So, scientists once thought quasicrystals might just be this kind of accidental arrangement. However, now, physicists at the University of Michigan have cracked the puzzle. Their latest study shows ...

The CSD-Materials suite now includes a CSD Python API feature based on the FIDEL method, known as AutoFIDEL, which allows for matching and optimizing crystal structures against experimental powder ...

Absent the regular structure of a crystal, there's no way of telling ... even though the patterns are different. You can keep doing this for different angles and different but overlapping ...

Yet that doesn’t stop us from peering at the intricate crystal structures caught ... Analysis of the diffraction pattern allows the structure of the solid to be discerned; this technique was ...