New research suggests that the makeup of space ice might be quite a bit different than we previously believed.

For decades, scientists have known that when glass cools from a molten state the atoms become jammed in a random pattern, whereas the atoms in metals form a regular, crystal lattice structure.

A team of researchers has developed a novel method for using cholesteric liquid crystals in optical microcavities. The ...

Analysis of a manganese-based crystal has produced the first clear picture of its molecular structure. The findings could help explain the magnetic and electronic behavior of the whole family of ...

With just a bit of helium, the lighter-than-air element that makes balloons float, scientists have done what was once thought impossible -- they stretched a crystal lattice in just one dimension ...

For more than 100 years, scientists have been using X-ray crystallography to determine the structure of crystalline materials such as metals, rocks, and ceramics.

When a crystal is hit by an intense ultrashort light pulse, its atomic structure is set in motion. A team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ), the Technischen ...

Mehl's website, called Crystal Lattice Structures, provided detailed information that, while available from other sources, was more useful to researchers unfamiliar with crystallographic conventions.

Iron atoms keep their place on the lattice while carbon atoms become “interstitials.” In low-temperature ferrite, or BCC structure, however, there is no room for carbon atoms.

Using new imaging, Huber and his colleagues hope to uncover trails of destruction from long-ago dark matter interactions inside crystal lattice structures - a pattern of atoms found in a mineral ...