Gotham Knights is here, and while players won’t get to roam around Gotham City in the Batmobile this time around, they will have plenty of options with regards to customization. That brings us to ...

Crystals—from sugar and table salt to snowflakes and diamonds—don't always grow in a straightforward way. New York University researchers have captured this journey from amorphous blob to orderly ...

Colloidal crystals' unknown characteristic has been discovered by Northwestern University researchers recently, as reported by Interesting Engineering. Researchers from the Auragen laboratory prepare ...

Northwestern University researchers have uncovered a previously unknown property of colloidal crystals, highly ordered three-dimensional arrays of nanoparticles. The team engineered colloidal crystals ...

Crystals—from sugar and table salt to snowflakes and diamonds—don't always grow in a straightforward way. New York University researchers have captured this journey from amorphous blob to orderly ...

(a) Microscopic image and schematic representation of crystal polymorphs obtained via heteroepitaxial growth (α-phase: green; β-phase: red). Polystyrene particles with a diameter of 860 nm were used ...

(Nanowerk News) MIT engineers have united the principles of self-assembly and 3-D printing using a new technique, which they highlight today in the journal Advanced Materials ("Direct-Write Freeform ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 112, No. 47 (November 24, 2015), pp. 14545-14550 (6 pages) Designing and controlling particle self-assembly into ...

Mixed-order phase transitions display a discontinuity in the order parameter like first-order transitions yet feature critical behavior like second-order transitions. Such transitions have been ...

Researchers have uncovered a previously unknown property of colloidal crystals, highly ordered three-dimensional arrays of nanoparticles. Northwestern University researchers have uncovered a ...