When a liquid metal cools and turns into a solid, its atoms come together to form crystals. The structure of these crystals is not perfect. Sometimes an extra layer of atoms squeezes between other ...

IN a paper on the “foam structure” of metals, in The international Journal of Metallography (iii., i), Prof. Quincke gives a summary of the conclusions which he states as the result of researches ...

Lanthanide-containing complexes are important compounds for sophisticated nuclear-fuel processing and medical imaging. Moreover, they often have interesting symmetric crystal structures and associated ...

New research shows that the electronic structure of metals can strongly affect their mechanical properties. New research from the University of Birmingham shows that the electronic structure of metals ...

A group of scientists examined a novel way of altering the architectures of ultra-small nanomaterials. These metal nanoclusters bridge the gap between the metal atom and the bulk metal, making them ...

A metal is comprised of many individual crystals, or grains. These crystals are held together by electrons in the same way that electrons hold the atoms within each crystal together. For more on this ...