Liquid crystal structures key to organic solar cell performance, study finds
A new study by researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign describes a breakthrough in the field of organic ...
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Iron Nitrides: Powerful Magnets Without The Rare Earth Elements
In fact, the only thing needed to make them is iron and nitrogen, plus an understanding of crystal structure and some engineering ingenuity. To start things off, what even is a permanent magnet?
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Crystal Structure of Martensite
Seljakow, J. Kurdumoff, and N. Goodtzow (NATURE, 119, 494; 1927), that quenched carbon steels contain a phase with a tetragonal crystal structure, which might be considered as a deformation of the ...
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Crystal structure of botulinum neurotoxin type A and implications for toxicity
We describe here the crystal structure of BoNT/A and then use this structural information to address some of these mechanistic questions. The binding domain, with overall dimensions of 32 Å × 37 ...
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Greetings from the fourth dimension: Scientists glimpse 4D crystal structure using surface wave patterns
Dan Shechtman of the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology made the discovery that would later earn him the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: the quasiperiodic crystal. According to diffraction ...