FROM an examination of the available data for cellulose and the sugars, we have formed the conclusion that the six-atom sugar ring is associated in the crystalline state with certain linear ...

Interactions between atoms and light rule the behavior of our physical world, but at the same time, can be extremely complex.

Teeth are essential for helping people break down the food they eat, and are protected by enamel, which helps them withstand the large amount of stress they experience as people chew away. Unlike ...

Caltech researchers have developed PAMs, a novel material that blends the properties of solids and liquids, making them ...

Caltech researchers 3D print chain mail-like material - known as PAM - that responds to some stresses like a fluid and others like a solid.

New theory offers insights into the origin of the very low and negative thermal expansion observed in cordierite ...

A crystal is a solid with a periodic atomic structure and a deviation from the periodicity of the crystal lattice is called a defect. Crystalline defects include point defects (e.g. colour centres ...

Experiments have yielded a fascinating new type of matter, neither granular nor crystalline, that responds to some stresses as a fluid would and to others like a solid. The new material, known as PAM ...

The matter’s ability to respond to environmental stimuli like electrical charges could revolutionize biomedical engineering ...

Chirality is the property of an object that makes it different from its mirror image, like our left and right hands. In ...

A new technique involving terahertz light has enabled the creation of chiral states in non-chiral materials, offering ...

Microsoft researchers report that when the system was given over 608,000 stable materials from databases, it was able to ...