All Articles Tagged As: crystals

Researchers make breakthrough in renewable energy materials (6/2/2008)

Researchers have made a ground-breaking discovery that produces highly efficient miniature crystals which could revolutionise the way we harvest and use solar energy. ...> Full Article

Findings a step toward making new optical materials (4/28/2008)

>Chemical engineers have developed a "self-assembling" method that could lead to an inexpensive way of making diamondlike crystals to improve optical communications and other technologies. ...> Full Article

First-class protein crystals thanks to weightlessness on earth (4/25/2008)

Dutch chemist has developed two attractive alternatives for allowing protein crystals to grow under weightless conditions ...> Full Article

Quasicrystal mystery unraveled with computer simulation (3/16/2008)

The method to the madness of quasicrystals has been a mystery to scientists. Quasicrystals are solids whose atoms aren't arranged in a repeating pattern, as they are in ordinary crystals. Yet they form intricate patterns that are technologically useful. ...> Full Article

Rock: Electrons run through it (3/10/2008)

Mineral surfaces linked by electrons traveling through mineral's bulk ...> Full Article

Strange-behaving cystals could have impact on research, technology (1/4/2008)

All of us break the rules from time to time -- even crystals. ...> Full Article

Bacteria shed light on an important group of human proteins (11/26/2007)

Researchers have found the solution of the first crystal structure of a member of the Rhesus protein family and thereby shed new light on a group of proteins of great importance in human transfusion medicine. ...> Full Article

Photonic Gel Films Hold Promise (10/24/2007)

By alternating layers of two different polymers - one rigid and glassy, the other soft and easily swollen with liquid or vapor. Researchers report they've created photonic gel crystals that can be tuned to reflect light of many different colors across the visible and near-infrared spectrum. ...> Full Article

Solution to a seven-decade mystery is crystal clear to chemist (10/20/2007)

A researcher has helped solve a scientific mystery that stumped chemists for nearly seven decades. In so doing, his team's findings may lead to the development of more-powerful computer memories and lasers. ...> Full Article