Electronic nematicity is a phase of some crystalline solids in which electrons' collective properties, such as charge or spin ...

A research team from Aarhus University, Denmark, has measured and explained the exceptionally low thermal conductivity of the crystalline material AgGaGe₃Se₈. Despite its ordered structure, the ...

Solids come in two main structural types—crystalline, with orderly repeating patterns, and amorphous, with disordered ...

For a long time, it was thought that amorphous solids do not selectively absorb light because of their disordered atomic structure. A new study disproves this theory and shows that amorphous solids ...

Try bending a piece of glass, and it’ll likely shatter. But what if a different, stronger form of glass were possible? Researchers at the University of Oregon put physics to the test and developed a ...