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 ...

A colloidal crystal has a similar ordered structure, but with the addition of suspended, submicron-sized particles. These special crystals are regarded as a good model of phase transition ...

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 ...

By fixing the conformation of these otherwise highly flexible molecules in the host material’s rigid crystal ... have enabled structure determination from nanometre-scale crystals 3, but still ...