With six Nobel Prizes in the category, organometallic chemistry has been a widely explored field since the 1950s. Yet, the ...

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

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 ...

Discovered in 1999 inside an abandoned mine in Southern Spain, Pulpí Geode is the largest crystal 'cave' of its kind in the world. But what exactly is a geode and how do crystals form inside them?