Berkeley Lab, UC Berkeley researchers lead study that uses trapped atoms in an artificial crystal of light

The only material we have from the very early Earth comes in the form of tiny, naturally occurring zircon crystals

“This has been this puzzle for many years, and it finally has a suitably beautiful explanation."

Breakthrough promises insights into climate, environment and age-old riddles, such as why no two snowflakes are alike

Dozens of new two-dimensional materials similar to graphene are now available, thanks to research from University of Manchester scientists

Findings have implications for decades-old questions in science and technology regarding how animals and plants grow minerals into shapes

Method for growing 'hybrid' crystals at the nanoscale incorporates quantum dots into a host nanowire with perfect junctions between the components.

U of T experts suggest crystalized materials may hold wide commercial potential.

As thesis writing approached, University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student Veronica Berns faced a conundrum. She knew how hard it was to describe her work to friends and family — indeed, anybody outside the tight clan of structural chemists. And that was particularly true since she concentrated on a category of should-be-impossible structures called “quasicrystals.”

Since the 1850s scientists have known that crystalline materials are organized into 14 different basic lattice structures. However, a team of researchers from Vanderbilt University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) now reports that it has discovered an entirely new form of crystalline order that simultaneously exhibits both crystal and polycrystalline properties, which they describe as “interlaced crystals.”