To obtain single crystalline metal seeds with various surface structures, polycrystalline Cu foils were first oxidized and then annealed at a high temperature (1020 °C), which is close to the melting ...

Researchers report how highly crystalline samples of transition metal dichalcogenides such as MoS2 and WS2 can be grown. These ultra-thin and mechanically flexible materials are important for the ...

Researchers have discovered that not all atoms in a liquid are in motion and that some remain stationary regardless of the temperature, significantly impacting the solidification process, including ...

Yale researchers have found a novel mechanism of how metallic glass deforms at a nanometer scale. Jan Schroers, a professor of mechanical engineering and materials science, and Naijia Liu, a former ...

Throw a rock through a window made of silica glass, and the brittle, insulating oxide pane shatters. But whack a golf ball with a club made of metallic glass—a resilient conductor that looks like ...

The boundary between solid metal and liquid metal can be much less ‘solid’ than we ever suspected. Watch the explainer video. The boundary between solid metal and liquid metal can be much less ‘solid’ ...

Just as cloning in biology allows for the creation of one or more replicas of the exact same genes, seeded growth in chemistry can produce a very large metal foil with the exact same surface texture ...