16-07-30 An international team of scientists has just sequenced a protein crystal located in the midgut of cockroaches. The reason? 最近，一个国际科学家团队确定了蟑螂中肠内的蛋白质晶体的结构序列。为什么要研究这个？ Its more than four times as nutritious as c...

16-05-18 Designing materials that better respond to dynamic loading can help vehicles minimize vibration, better protect military convoys or potentially make buildings safer during an earthquake. Granular materials -- assemblages of particles that range broa...

16-02-26 Just as the single-crystal silicon wafer forever changed the nature of communication 60 years ago, a group of Cornell researchers is hoping its work with quantum dot solids - crystals made out of crystals - can help usher in a new era in electronics...

13-12-30 A team of material scientists, chemical engineers and physicists from the University of Pennsylvania has made another advance in their effort to use liquid crystals as a medium for assembling structures. In their earlier studies, the team produced p...

13-10-30 Gems are known for the beauty of the light that passes through them. But it is the fixed atomic arrangements of these crystals that determine the light frequencies permitted passage. Now a Sandia-led team has created a plasmonic, or plasma-containin...

13-08-05 Chemists have unexpectedly made two differently colored crystals -- one orange, the other blue -- from one chemical in the same flask（烧瓶） while studying a special kind of molecular connection called an agostic bond. The discovery, reported in An...

10-10-06 Chemists at Vanderbilt University have created a new class of liquid crystals with unique electrical properties that could improve the performance of digital displays used on everything from digital watches to flat panel televisions. The achievement...