For scientists and engineers, the best way to understand a new or unknown material--whether it's an alloy, a pharmaceutical or a meteorite--is to delve into its atoms. Techniques such as X-ray ...

Researchers have found special atomic patterns called quasicrystals in 3D-printed aluminum alloys. Quasicrystals increase the strength of 3D-printed aluminum, the researchers discovered, making it ...

In April 1982, Prof. 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 ...

Fig.2 Crystal structure characterization of tin perovskites films. (a) GIWAXS patterns of PEABr and PEABr-PEASCN films. (b) GIWAXS intensity integrated azimuthally. (c) XRD patterns of tin perovskite ...

"Richard Dennis publications in association with Wellcome Collection" -- t.p. "Published in conjunction with the exhibition: From atoms to patterns: crystal structure designs from the 1951 Festival of ...