Solids come in two main structural types—crystalline, with orderly repeating patterns, and amorphous, with disordered arrangements. These structural differences shape their physical properties, from ...

A research team from Aarhus University, Denmark, has measured and explained the exceptionally low thermal conductivity of the crystalline material AgGaGe₃Se₈. Despite its ordered structure, the ...

For a long time, it was thought that amorphous solids do not selectively absorb light because of their disordered atomic structure. A new study disproves this theory and shows that amorphous solids ...

Try bending a piece of glass, and it’ll likely shatter. But what if a different, stronger form of glass were possible? Researchers at the University of Oregon put physics to the test and developed a ...

Scientists led by a physicist at the University of Oregon have taken a major step in solving an enduring mystery that we encounter every time we look through a window or stare at a phone screen. For ...

A research team led by Prof. Yoonseob Kim, Associate Professor of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at ...

Researchers at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology have developed a new material ...