Scientists have theoretically demonstrated that special tetrahedron nanostructures composed of certain metals have a higher degree of symmetry than the geometrical symmetry of spherical atoms.

The nuclei of atoms are often portrayed as round in textbooks, but it turns out they're rarely spherical. advertisement. Live Science. Why isn’t an atom’s nucleus round?

Examples of atoms that are not spherical are those of iron and carbon. In quantum physics, the time independent Schroedinger s equation gives an insight into the shape of atoms. V Venkata Rao ...

Atoms experience a kind of rolling friction when they fly along surface. I appreciate that the "classical" approach to solving this problem yielded an accelerating particle. It seems reasonable to ...

Atoms in a nano test tube. ... Professor Ute Kaiser, added: "As we imaged these diatomic molecules by the state of the art chromatic and spherical aberration corrected SALVE TEM, ...

image: Spherical atoms have the highest geometrical symmetry, and thus exhibit the high multiplicity of quantum states, usually called degeneracy.

A new paper in Energies, authored by Mansoor J. Alshehri of King Saud University in Saudi Arabia, has investigated the encapsulation of lithium atoms in different-sized spherical fullerenes.

The team takes buckminsterfullerene molecules – spherical cages formed of 60 carbon atoms – with a single krypton atom trapped inside. These molecules are then sucked into a carbon nanotube by ...

Dark atoms "There is no good reason to assume that all the dark matter in the universe is built out of one type of particle," study author Andrey Katz of Harvard University told SPACE.com.

In 2015 the fusion reactor at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory got a spherical upgrade for an energy-efficiency boost. ... to force atoms together and make said reaction happen, ...