When a material is loaded under stress, the accumulating elastic energy eventually sets off dissipative processes, such as plastic deformation. These processes are generally mediated by dislocation ...

A Purdue University study shows that when water molecules in the gas phase are cooled to very low temperatures, tiny clusters containing eight water molecules naturally arrange themselves into small ...

This single layer is the precursor of the simple cubic (SC) unit cell. The lattice points are touching one another but not in the most efficient way. In other words, we are creating a lot of empty ...

Out of the many boron nitride (BN) structural forms, cubic-BN (c-BN) nanodots (NDs) offer the potential for a variety of new opportunities across a plethora of applications. Until now, experimental ...

Iron, cobalt and nickel are the most ferromagnetic elements in the periodic table and naturally adopt different structures: body-centred cubic (bcc) for iron, hexagonal close packed (hcp) for cobalt, ...