For the first time ever, researchers have watched the mesmerizing process of nanoparticles self-assembling into solid materials. In the stunning new videos, particles rain down, tumble along ...

In physics, some waves behave in a surprising way: instead of spreading out and fading, they hold their shape as they travel ...

Students Tackling Advanced Research, or STAR, gives first-year Dragons a summer to join a faculty-led project and learn how research really happens. The goal is early mentorship, real responsibility, ...

Crystalline nanomaterials are valuable because their highly ordered structures give them useful properties for technologies such as data storage and optical devices. But forming nanoparticles from ...

A new theory 'demystifies' the crystallization process and shows that the material that crystallizes is the dominant component within a solution -- which is the solvent, not the solute. The theory ...

(Nanowerk News) In-cell engineering can be a powerful tool for synthesizing functional protein crystals with promising catalytic properties, show researchers at Tokyo Tech. Using genetically modified ...