The new technique could one day be used to create less expensive astronomical sensors.

(Nanowerk News) Table salt and refined sugar look white to our eyes, but that is only because their individual colorless crystals scatter visible light. This feature of crystals is not always ...

A mixture of diluted acetic acid, the main acid of vinegar, and sodium acetate made up the modulator, which interacted with the copper-based medium to grow crystals in only one direction. By arranging ...

A new method aims to produce crystals that "precisely match a specific optical wavelength." Credit: Voyager Technologies Voyager Technologies plans to test aboard the International Space Station (ISS) ...

The metal-organic framework thin film synthesized at top did not involve a modulator, while the finely arranged version above did. Table salt and refined sugar look white to our eyes, but that is only ...

Make Valentine’s Day magical! Learn how to grow heart-shaped borax crystals with this easy ...

Noble gases have a reputation for being unreactive, inert elements, but more than 60 years ago Neil Bartlett demonstrated the first way to bond xenon. He created XePtF6, an orange-yellow solid.

Excited to feature a recent publication by HTX Center users in the Izard Lab at Scripps as Crystals of the Month! ‘We used over 1000 commercially available crystallization screens … to attempt to grow ...