After Decades, MIT Researchers Capture the First 3D Atomic View of a Mysterious Material

A long-standing mystery in materials science is beginning to unravel as researchers directly probe the hidden atomic ...
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AI learns to uncover the hidden atomic structure of crystals

Crystallography is the science of analyzing the pattern produced by shining an X-ray beam through a material sample. A powder sample produces a different pattern than solid crystal. One longstanding ...

Hidden 3D atomic structure of relaxor ferroelectrics revealed for first time

Materials called relaxor ferroelectrics have been used for decades in technologies like ultrasounds, microphones, and sonar ...
Nanowerk

Atom Probe Tomography: Uncovering the 3D Atomic Structure of Materials

What is Atom Probe Tomography? Atom Probe Tomography (APT) is a powerful analytical technique that provides three-dimensional (3D) imaging and chemical composition analysis of materials at the atomic ...
Nanowerk

Electron Diffraction: Unveiling Atomic Structure, Defects, and Dynamics in Nanomaterials

Electron diffraction is a powerful analytical technique used to study the atomic structure of materials. It involves the interaction of a beam of electrons with a crystalline sample, resulting in a ...
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Figure 1. Example of an atomic substitution in a crystal (IMAGE)

Atomic substitution with La atoms: Ce8Pd24Sb → (Ce5,La3)Pd24Sb. The crystal structure was obtained from the ICSD database (CollCode: 83378). The space group is 221-Pm3m, and the crystal structures are ...
Nature

Atomic Structure and the Quantum Theory

WE publish this week, as a special supplement, the substance of an address by Prof. N. Bohr on the development of the theory of atomic structure, and in particular of the latest form and tendencies of ...