Hexagonal close packing is one of two crystal structures that derive from stacking close-packed-planes of hard sphere atoms. In the HCP structure only two stacking ...

Zinc sulphide exists with two different crystal structures, the cubic zinc blend (top diagram) and the hexagonal Wurtzite (lower diagram). In the zinc blend structure the sulphur ions form an fcc ...

More than 4,000 naturally occurring minerals—inorganic solids that have a characteristic chemical composition and specific crystal structure—have been found on Earth. They are formed of simple ...

Pyrite is often dismissed as “fool’s gold” but this mineral creates some of the most stunning crystals in nature. Walk into ...

When it comes to electrically conductive nanomaterials, graphene—stronger and lighter than steel and more conductive than ...

A breakthrough discovery in indium selenide could revolutionize memory storage technology by enabling crystalline-to-glass ...

A crystal radio is basically a high Q resonator tied to an antenna and an envelope detector. These days the envelope detector is a point contact diode such as a 1N34 Germanium diode. The resonant ...

Similarly, the multifunctional HN molecule makes it an attractive target for structure-based design of drugs for diseases caused by paramyxoviruses. We report here the crystal structure of the ...

The lenses, which use two layers of liquid crystal structures, could be useful for various applications such as optical ...

This incredible array of functions derives from a startlingly simple code that specifies a hugely diverse set of structures ... of atoms within the protein crystal. How Do Proteins Arrive at ...

Prof. Leslie Leiserowitz first became intrigued by malaria when he was a young boy in South Africa. His father, who scouted ...

Billy Crystal and his wife, Janice, have been married for more than 50 years Kaitlin Stevens is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. Her work has also ...