MIT physicists and colleagues have created a new material with unusual superconducting and metallic properties, thanks to ...

Some approaches define atomic charges in terms of observable ... bonds with their neighbors in the crystal structure.

A recently discovered carbon-based defect, the atomic structure of which remains unidentified ... compared the results with the well-understood boron vacancy defect that also exists in hBN.

Prof. Sebastian Loth and his team have captured atomic-level electron motion in solids with unprecedented spatial and ...

Electron optics expert Ondrej Krivanek on how atomic images could lead to energy-sipping computers, eco-friendly power, and sharper images of living cells Single-layer crystal of boron nitride ...

The researchers discovered that the surface undergoes rearrangement, allowing aluminum atoms to penetrate and form chemical ...

Quantum sensor can detect magnetic fields in any direction and monitor temperature changes in a sample at the same time ...

His predictions were subsequently completely verified by the discovery of the elements scandium (eka-boron), gallium ... with an interesting theory of atomic structure that was first put forward ...

Using a laser, a scientist controls the NV center’s “spin” — a property of all atomic matter — to process quantum information. When boron is incorporated into the diamond in just the ...

Graphene is placed on top of boron nitride so that graphene’s electrons can ‘feel’ individual boron and nitrogen atoms. Moving along this atomic ‘washboard’, electrons rearrange themselves once again ...

In episode six of this eight-part series on atomic structure and the periodic table ... down – or period 2 – is lithium, beryllium, boron, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, fluorine and neon and ...