A 40-atom gold nanocluster breaks from gold's signature dense packing, forming square atomic planes with a central channel that accelerates electron relaxation about 80x.

This is the crystal structure of beta titanium-3 gold. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for ...

For more than 100 years, scientists have been using X-ray crystallography to determine the structure of crystalline materials such as metals, rocks, and ceramics. This technique works best when the ...

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In April, a spectacular specimen featuring a 15cm-long plume of solid crystallised gold rising from a rocky matrix arrived at London’s Natural History Museum on loan from the Houston Museum of Natural ...