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

HOUSTON – (Nov. 28, 2022) – A crystal’s shape is determined by its inherent chemistry, a characteristic that ultimately determines its final form from the most basic of details. But sometimes the lack ...

(Nanowerk News) Can the shape of a crystal really change how well it performs in clean energy technology? A new study says yes—decisively. Researchers from National Taiwan University, National Tsing ...

TINY iron fragments can shape-shift to get out of a jam. The metal nanocrystals have been glimpsed reshaping themselves to squeeze through tight spaces, without melting or compressing. That could be a ...

Adding iron to a copper-based propellant MOF simultaneously solves its water stability problem and boosts laser propulsion ...