Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 105, No. 25 (Jun. 24, 2008), pp. 8519-8524 (6 pages) In many physical and biological systems the transition from ...

Within a modest engineering laboratory at Duke University, a new type of researcher is quietly at work next to an optical ...

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Haozhe "Harry" Wang's electrical and computer engineering lab at Duke welcomed an unusual new lab member this fall: ...

Explore the Aucanquilcha volcano in Chile and uncover fascinating amphibole mineral textures through polarized light microscopy. You might notice a scale bar below the crystal - that is 200 ...

Photonic crystals are materials in which a periodic variation of the dielectric constant results in a photonic band gap. Photons with wavelengths or energies in this gap cannot travel through the ...

The potential use of nickel in new nanomaterials and as a low-cost catalyst in chemical reactions serving a range of industrial processes has been held back by a limited understanding of fundamental ...

Salt creeping, a phenomenon that occurs in both natural and industrial processes, describes the collection and migration of salt crystals from evaporating solutions onto surfaces. Once they start ...