The inside of giant planets can reach pressures more than one million times the Earth's atmosphere. As a result of that ...

When ultraviolet light hits ice—whether in Earth's polar regions or on distant planets—it triggers a cascade of chemical ...

The experiments were led by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in collaboration with other institutions. By compressing gold to pressures about 10 million times Earth’s atmospheric pressure ...

Simulations comparing aluminum oxide models with differing amounts of corrugation demonstrate the significance of hydroxyl ...

Only one side of a silver crystal has the right structure to trigger ice formation, revealing how these particles help clouds release rain.

More than 11,000 hours of R&D, five new patents plus the use of additional patents, as well as proprietary materials went ...

But recently-graduated RPI materials science Ph.D. student Ru Jia and her lab fellows grew crystals through carbon buffer ...

THE structure of the coronene molecule, C 24 H 12, is of particular interest in view of its peculiarly high symmetry (Fig. 1). With regard to electron distribution and bond-lengths, the structure ...

The quest for materials capable of combining semiconductor properties with superconductivity represents a major challenge for ...

Figure 1: a, Amino acid sequences of recombinant Sso7d and Sac7d. The molecular surface of Sso7d is irregular with numerous ridges and valleys (Fig. 2a). The excellent matching of shapes and charges ...