(Nanowerk News) Many substances with different chemical and physical properties, from diamonds to graphite, are made up of carbon atoms. Amorphous forms of solid carbon do not have a fixed crystal ...

Glassy state: a new field theory describes amorphous materials such as glass beads. (Courtesy: iStock/schmidt-z) Many common materials such as glass, compacted sand and toothpaste have a solid’s ...

A research team led by Prof. YAO Hongbin from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), in collaboration with Prof. SHANG Cheng from Fudan University and Prof. TAO Xinyong at Zhejiang ...

For more than a century, an important class of matter -- the amorphous solid -- has eluded scientists' ability to depict nature at the level of atoms and molecules. Until now. A new study reports the ...

Beautiful lights are emitted by peeling, twisting, rubbing and flicking the amorphous copper complex films. These materials hold potential in industrial engineering and safety applications. In the 17 ...

These sessions aim to give chemists and chemical engineers a thorough practical knowledge of crystallisation processes. After an introduction the course will cover crystallisation of compounds ...

Flexible films challenge long-held scientific views on the necessity of crystals for mechanoluminescence. (Nanowerk News) In the 17th century, Francis Bacon described a simple experiment—scraping and ...