Water ice is a far more complex substance than we might assume. Scientists have now created an exotic new form of ice in the ...

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 ...

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

Atomic clocks are more accurate than those used to define the second, suggesting the definition might need to change ...

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

The study identifies monolayer amorphous carbon (MAC) as a breakthrough in material science, exhibiting superior toughness ...

Like graphene, MAC is also a 2D or single atom-thick material. But unlike graphene where atoms are arranged in an ordered ⎯ ...

Even the strongest crack under pressure, a problem materials scientists have long been grappling with. For instance, ...

Rice researchers found that a carbon material known as monolayer amorphous carbon is eight times tougher than graphene.

The ability to store information has evolved from punch-card looms to modern smartphones. Every technological advancement has ...

The influenza A virus genome consists of eight segments of single-stranded, negative-sense viral RNA, which encode multiple ...