The graphite found in your favorite pencil could have instead been the diamond your mother always wears. What made the difference? Researchers are finding out.

In a first for the field, researchers from The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have reported a ...

Researchers at the University of Illinois have pulled off a laser first: they built a new kind of eye-safe laser that works ...

Scientists have found that water ice in space isn't completely disordered as once believed. New research shows that up to 25% of so-called amorphous ice actually contains tiny crystals, changing how ...

Similarly to vitreous silica, irradiation of Sio2 films on silicon releases bond strain by creating network defects and a small increase in density and a decrease in polarizability. In contrast, the ...

Crystallography-informed AI achieves high performance in predicting novel crystal structures by Research Organization of Information and Systems ...

Spherical SiO2 particles were prepared by a novel co-precipitation process improved by electrolyte NaCl for charging and further self-assembled into photonic crystal by vertical deposition method. The ...

Mar 05, 2025 Liquid crystal structures key to organic solar cell performance Researchers improved organic solar cell fabrication by controlling molecular assembly, enhancing efficiency and stability, ...

Crystal structure for 12 polymorphs of silicon dioxide SiO2.E'δ (??),dimer configuration E' center,≡Si Si≡ + h → ≡Si·Si≡, [Mukhopadhyay05a].The preparation and characterization of ultra thin silicon ...

The method successfully reproduced the distinctive crystal structures of both carbon (graphite and diamond) and silicon dioxide (low-quartz, low-cristobalite, and coesite). It worked.