Material engineers and scientists have long wanted to understand the atomic structures of amorphous solids such as glass, rubber and plastics more fully. Unlike the structures of crystalline materials ...

From carrying current on a computer's circuit boards to holding up skyscrapers, metal has countless uses, thanks to its special characteristics: It's hard and strong, yet it's bendable. It can be ...

Research in mechanics of solids mainly includes fundamental theory (elasticity, plasticity, variational principles, fatigue and fracture of materials and structures,and inelastic constitutive ...

THE eighth Edgar Marburg lecture of the American Society for Testing Materials was delivered by Dr. H. J. Gough, his subject being “Crystalline Structure in Relation to Failure of Metals—especially by ...

BEIJING -- An international team led by Chinese scientists has achieved the world's first observation of the complex crystalline structure of solid hydrogen using X-ray nanoscale probes, revealing the ...

Researchers at Harvard University say they've managed to create a potentially revolutionary material that has only been imagined in theory for the past several decades: solid metallic hydrogen. Back ...

Scientists are on a journey to uncover clues about hydrogen’s most elusive phase—solid metallic hydrogen. The prize for discovering it could be room temperature superconductivity—a world first. But ...

Artist’s rendering of an atomically thin coating of silver and some silver atoms below the surface protecting the crystalline structure of a solid electrolyte for lithium metal batteries in ...

• The structure of the red oxygen ε-phase formed under pressures above 10 GPa has been determined. • Discovery of an O 8 cluster, which is a new conformation of oxygen following ozone. The solid ...