Gotham Knights is here, and while players won’t get to roam around Gotham City in the Batmobile this time around, they will have plenty of options with regards to customization. That brings us to ...

Crystals—from sugar and table salt to snowflakes and diamonds—don't always grow in a straightforward way. New York University researchers have captured this journey from amorphous blob to orderly ...

(a) Microscopic image and schematic representation of crystal polymorphs obtained via heteroepitaxial growth (α-phase: green; β-phase: red). Polystyrene particles with a diameter of 860 nm were used ...

Researchers have uncovered a previously unknown property of colloidal crystals, highly ordered three-dimensional arrays of nanoparticles. Northwestern University researchers have uncovered a ...

Nature keeps a few secrets. While plenty of structures with low symmetry are found in nature, scientists have been confined to high-symmetry designs when synthesizing colloidal crystals, a valuable ...

For more than a century, scientists have treated chemistry as the master key to building new materials, tuning bonds and charges to coax atoms into useful patterns. A new wave of research is quietly ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 112, No. 47 (November 24, 2015), pp. 14545-14550 (6 pages) Designing and controlling particle self-assembly into ...

Imagine a "smart fluid" whose internal structure can be rearranged just by changing temperature. In a new study published in ...

Notably, this assembly process occurs spontaneously without chemically modifying the viruses, setting it apart from previous techniques that require laborious genetic alterations or additional ...

Nature keeps a few secrets. While plenty of structures with low symmetry are found in nature, scientists have been confined to high-symmetry designs when synthesizing colloidal crystals, a valuable ...