A research team has discovered ferroelectric phenomena occurring at a subatomic scale in the natural mineral Brownmillerite.

Scientists have developed a method to alter the color and brightness of rare earth element luminescence by changing their ...

The discovery hinges on a rising technique in modern physics called “twistronics,” where layers of materials are contorted at ...

Their similar charge and atomic structure mean that rare earth elements can often be used interchangeably within a crystal ...

Instead of weakening the structure, these broken bonds provide just the right charge balance to keep the material stable, acting like an atomic-scale glue. Like magnets, polarized materials have ...

For more than 100 years, scientists have used a method called crystallography to determine the atomic structure of materials. The method works by shining an X-ray beam through a material sample and ...

We deliberately designed compounds with an electronic structure that is atypical for lanthanides. "Rather than focusing on a single example, we synthesized a series of compounds from cerium to ...

Chemical dogma suggests that these orbitals are not keen on forming bonds because they lie relatively close to the atomic ... hafnium, cerium, and thorium, all with the same basic structure.

A part of Rutherford’s scattering experiments, this particular experiment involved shooting alpha particles at a piece of gold foil with the source, foil, and detector placed in a vacuum vessel ...

Together with new calculations of the structure of atomic nuclei, theoretical physicists from the Technical University of Darmstadt and Leibniz University Hannover were able to show that measurements ...

Both rubies and emeralds are minerals, which is a type of rock with a consistent chemical composition and a highly ordered structure at the atomic level. When this highly ordered structure extends ...