Crystals—from sugar and table salt to snowflakes and diamonds—don't always grow in a straightforward way. New York University ...

Crystal formation follows a two-step process: messy, shapeless clumps of particles, or amorphous blobs, first come together ...

Scientists at Columbia Engineering have created a machine learning algorithm that can observe the pattern produced by ...

Researchers have now captured this journey from amorphous blob to orderly structures. In exploring how crystals form, the researchers also came across an unusual, rod-shaped crystal that hadn't ...

For more than 100 years, scientists have used a method called crystallography to determine the atomic structure of materials ... these observations to reconstruct the crystal. Finally, they put the AI ...

Photonic crystals are periodic optical structures that can control the flow ... prevent an optical beam from propagating through the crystal. Photonic crystal devices can therefore force light ...