A team of physicists, materials scientists and engineers affiliated with several institutions in China, working with a colleague from Umeå University, in Sweden, has grown a diamond that is harder ...

For a long time, scientists associated crystal structures with an ordered arrangement of atoms in a repeating lattice-like pattern, believing it to be the most stable configuration. However, by the ...

Artificial spin ice (ASI) systems have emerged as powerful platforms for exploring the fundamental aspects of magnetic frustration and topological phenomena in condensed matter physics. In this study, ...

Hexagonal honeycombs and re-entrant lattices have been widely used in energy-absorption applications. The hexagonal honeycomb structure, known for its positive Poisson’s ratio and high specific ...

Diamonds are famous for their strength, but scientists have long suspected that another form of diamond might be even harder. Evidence of this was gathered over the past sixty years in meteorite ...