When a crystal is hit by an intense ultrashort light pulse, its atomic structure is set in motion. A team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ), the Technischen ...

Crystals reveal the hidden geometry of molecules to the naked eye. Scientists use crystals to figure out the atomic structure of new materials, but many materials can't be grown large enough. Now ...

In 1912, scientists invented X-ray crystallography and revealed a crystal’s atomic structure for the first time Tess Joosse Humans have marveled at crystals for millennia. Viridescent emerald ...

The diffraction pattern obtained in X-ray crystallography is a representation of the crystal structure in reciprocal space. Each spot in the diffraction pattern corresponds to a specific set of atomic ...

The three-dimensional atomic structure of a thin MgO crystal is reconstructed from one high-resolution transmission electron microscopy image. Nature Materials ...

To apply the technique to crystallography, the scientists began with a dataset of 40,000 crystal structures and jumbled the atomic positions until they were indistinguishable from random placement.

Scientists at EPFL and AstraZeneca have developed a method to map the atomic-level structure of amorphous drugs, demonstrated on a GLP-1 receptor agonist candidate for diabetes and obesity treatment.

The team found that the titanium atom in each BaTiS3 crystal exists in what is known as a double-well potential -- that is, there are two spatial locations in the atomic structure where the atom ...

At 5:30 A.M. local time on July 16th, 1945, a bomb was detonated in the deserts of New Mexico at a site 210 miles south of Los Alamos, codename Trinity. The intense heat and pressure emanating off ...

Mercado: It uses a beam of highly accelerated electrons to interact with a crystal sample. As the electrons pass through the rotating crystal, it produces a 3D diffraction pattern based on the atomic ...