The field of materials science has witnessed significant strides in elucidating how the arrangement of electrons within solids dictates their optical behaviour and other functional properties. By ...

The mechanism of high-temperature superconductivity remains one of the most important unresolved mysteries in condensed matter physics. Since the discovery of high-temperature superconductivity in ...

PHILADELPHIA – First came fullerenes, those cage-like molecules of 60 carbon atoms bound in a ball. Then came long, thin soda straws of carbon atoms called nanotubes. Now there are fullerenes nested ...

Electron density prediction for a four-million-atom aluminum system using machine learning, deemed to be infeasible using traditional DFT method. × Researchers from Michigan Tech and the University of ...

For decades, a class of materials critical to modern electronics operated with a level of mystery at their core. Now, ...

MIT researchers uncover a hidden 3D atomic structure in relaxor ferroelectrics using electron ptychography, resolving a ...