Half a billion years ago, nature evolved a remarkable trick: generating vibrant, shimmering colors via intricate, microscopic ...

Penn materials scientist Shoji Hall and colleagues have found that manipulating the surface of water can allow scientists to ...

Non-centrosymmetric halide perovskites are a class of semiconducting material containing a structural asymmetry with ...

The paper “An Aspirational Approach to Planetary Futures” lays out the conceptual foundation for a proposed new metric to track and promote mutually beneficial relationships between humans and the ...

Invisible quantum waves forge shape-shifting super-materials in real time Date: June 20, 2025 Source: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau Summary: Scientists have, for the ...

Scientists Discover Class of Crystals With Properties That May Prove Revolutionary Scientists are finding that quantum materials layered to form moiré patterns exhibit exciting new properties.

Summary: The manuscript entitled "Decoupling of the Onset of Anharmonicity between a Protein and Its Surface Water around 200 K" by Zheng et al. presents a neutron scattering study trying to elucidate ...

The fundamental and n = 3 overtones of Au nanoplate thickness vibrations have been studied by transient absorption microscopy. The frequencies of the n = 3 overtone are less than 3× the frequency of ...

The use of NMR spectroscopy will be more sensitive than x-ray probes in characterizing potential superionic materials. We proposed the plastic and superionic phase transition would be a universal ...

The characteristics of the CH stretching and out-of-plane bending modes in polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon molecules are investigated using anharmonic density functional theory (DFT) coupled to a ...