However, the researchers discovered that droplets made from certain materials undergo a process known as "interfacial freezing," in which the droplet's surface forms a crystalline molecular ...

Next, they layered these sheets in a crystalline structure and coaxed the ends of all the X's to attach to each other through the introduction of a chemical known as dialkyldichlorosilane.

The molecular-level information in the structure of the motor is efficiently transferred to the macroscopic texture of the liquid-crystalline phase. Figure 1: The induction of supramolecular ...

The findings are published in Physical Review B. The molecular crystal (C₂H₅)(CH₃)₃As[Pd(C₃S₅)₂]₂ contains [Pd(C₃S₅)₂]₂ molecules at the vertices of a triangular lattice ...

Our understanding of the molecular dynamics of growing crystals is quite primitive, and it is generally not possible to explain why even simple crystals develop their characteristic shapes. A case in ...