Pure iron can have two different crystal structures as its temperature is increased from room temperature to its melting point. At room temperature it is body-centered cubic, between 912 and 1394 C if ...

The findings are published in The Journal of Chemical Physics. Many materials can have several crystal structures, "phases," even in the same solid state. Determining the underlying crystal ...

Named after 19ty century Russian mineralogist Lev Perovski, perovskite materials have a crystal-lattice structure of inorganic molecules like that of ceramics, along with organic molecules that are ...

Researchers have discovered a method to induce chirality in non-chiral materials using terahertz light. This groundbreaking ...

Skoltech and MIPT researchers have sped up the search for high-performance metal alloys for the aerospace industry, ...