The Conversation on MSN9d
Why are rubies red and emeralds green? Their colors come from the same metal in their atomic structure
Crystal field theory makes predictions about how a transition metal ion's structure is affected by the other atoms ...
Rubies and emeralds get their colours from a common metal
Both rubies and emeralds are minerals, which is a type of rock with a consistent chemical composition and a highly ordered ...
Scientists Just Created an Ultra-Thin Polymer That Conducts Like Metal
A research team has developed a revolutionary two-dimensional polyaniline (2DPANI) crystal that overcomes major conductivity ...
Nanowerk1d
Breakthrough in conductive polymers: New polymer crystal conducts electricity like a metal
The discovery is a fundamental breakthrough in polymer research, as it opens up new possibilities for the development of more ...
Where should we look for new metals critical for green energy technology? Volcanoes may point the way
About 400 kilometers northwest of Sydney, just south of Dubbo, lies a large and interesting body of rock formed around 215 ...
Tech Xplore on MSN7d
268 new alloys: AI speeds up search for aerospace materials
Skoltech and MIPT researchers have sped up the search for high-performance metal alloys for the aerospace industry, ...
AlphaGalileo6d
Metal ion implantation and laser direct writing dance together: constructing never-fading physical colors on lithium niobate crystals
A new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances; DOI 10.29026/oea.2025.240193 , discusses a novel approach towards robust construction of physical ...
China Daily Global Edition7d
Scientists synthesize high-conductivity 2D conducting polymers
BEIJING -- An international team of researchers has synthesized a multilayer-stacked two-dimensional polyaniline crystal, ...