An AI algorithm was taught to produce the lightest and strongest possible geometric structure for a nanomaterial (depending ...

Is it possible to tile a surface with a single shape in such a way that the pattern never repeats itself? In 2022, a mathematical solution to this 'Einstein problem' was discovered for the first time.

Experiments on battery electrodes and fuel cell catalysts while they're being used - operando spectroscopy - can revolutionise our understanding of these crucial materials. Clare Sansom reports ...

Scientists have identified a new property, interface flexibility, that controls how certain molecules naturally self-organize into crystalline supramolecular networks. This significant discovery could ...

Recently, the work was completed by the group of Prof. Sheng Meng from the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Beijing National ...

Atomic force microscopy image of a DNA hexagonal network © PBL EPFL EPFL scientists have identified a new property, interface ...

Recently, the work was completed by the group of Prof. Sheng Meng from the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Beijing National Research Center for Condensed Matter Physics. By ...

Water isn't just liquid, ice, or vapor — under extreme conditions, it can transform into exotic phases, such as the newly observed plastic ice VII. This hybrid phase, predicted years ago but only ...