Plutonium has captured the attention of scientists since its discovery in the early 1940s. This enigmatic element has an ...

Researchers uncovered how soft regions in amorphous silicon mix order and disorder, offering new insights for designing ...

A research team led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory has developed a new method to uncover the atomic origins of unusual ...

Controlling the arrangement of atomic vacancies offers a new way to adjust electronic, magnetic, thermal, and hydrogen storage properties in crystalline materials. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Atomic ...

The ORNL study confirms that these imperfections do not disturb the atomic vibrations within the graphite, which are ...

A new boron-rich compound, manganese diboride, delivers much higher energy density than current solid-rocket materials while ...

The researchers calculated the microscopic atomic structure and properties of ultraheavy elements using the relativistic Thomas-Fermi model of the atom. Through their calculations, they found that ...

Inside the microchips powering the device you're reading this on, the atoms have a hidden order all their own. A team led by ...