Graphene nanoribbon Scanning tunnelling microscope image of a wide-band metallic graphene nanoribbon (GNR). Each cluster of protrusions corresponds to a singly occupied electron orbital. The formation ...

Using the second-nearest neighboring atoms to predict metallic glass stability can help researchers more accurately model the disordered solid with strong, elastic properties, according to a recent ...

MIT physicists and colleagues have created a new material with unusual superconducting and metallic properties, thanks to wavy layers of atoms only billionths of a meter thick that repeat themselves ...

Very recently, we described a self-assembly process derived from the non-covalent polymerization of catalytic amounts of triarylammonium radicals, which stack with their neutral counterparts 28. The ...

In a recent review article published in Materials, researchers provided an in-depth examination of nanoscale metallic multilayers (NMMs) and their composites (NMMCs), which consist of alternating ...

For decades, the development of metallic glasses (materials with a disordered, glassy atomic structure instead of a crystalline one) has faced a fundamental dilemma. To make a glass resist heat and ...

What properties allow lab-made metals to flow like liquids (as in this digital art)? Balakanu, CC BY-ND Metals are one of the most-used materials in the modern built world, found in everything from ...