An illustrative example of the impact and scale of the importance of materials is the names of ages in prehistory, such as the Stone, Bronze, or Iron Ages. The use of these materials by people in a ...

Glass is a fundamental material. Yet its atomic structure still baffles scientists to this day. Researchers have developed a new way to quantify ring shapes in chemically bonded networks of glass, ...

If you think of a single atom as a grain of sand, then a wavelength of visible light — which is a thousand times larger than the atom’s width — is comparable to an ocean wave. The light wave can dwarf ...

A study identified which pairs of atoms in a catalyst nanoparticle are most active in a reaction that breaks down a harmful exhaust gas in catalytic converters. The most active particles contained the ...

Researchers from Tokyo University of Science developed a three-dimensional atomic structure from scattering data of different TNO samples to examine the factors that affect the negative-electrode ...

A research team at National Taiwan University has discovered how single metal atoms dynamically adapt their structure and electronic configuration during electrochemical reactions, dramatically ...