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.

Crystal structure finding points to possible ... "It's the one stable compound we know of in the manganese branch that has a perfect crystal lattice structure," says Jeff Lynn of the NIST ...

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

Crystal Structures Key to Steel’s Design Flexibility Feb. 7, 2023 Material engineers have mapped out the reasons some steels are better than others and how to make those better still.

When a crystal is hit by an intense ultrashort light pulse, its atomic structure is set in motion. Scientists can now observe how the configuration of electrons and atoms in titanium dioxide, a ...

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.

However, it forms a different kind of crystal lattice — a tetrahedral one instead of a face-centered cubic one — that is 18% harder than diamond, according to the most recent simulations.