Silver iodide is the material of choice to make clouds release rain and snow. For decades, its remarkable ability to trigger precipitation has been used in cloud seeding to prevent hail damage and ...

NEW YORK & TOKYO & DÜSSELDORF--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Crystal IS, an Asahi Kasei company, today announced the successful serial production of 100 mm diameter single-crystal aluminum nitride (AlN) substrates ...

What is Liquid-Phase Exfoliation? Liquid-phase exfoliation (LPE) is a versatile and scalable method for producing two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterials from layered bulk crystals. It involves the use of ...

Controlling the size, shape and crystallographic orientation of single crystals is vital to exploit the desired properties. A new method to grow single crystals and simultaneously control their growth ...

Scientists from the University of Warsaw’s Faculty of Physics along with other researchers from Poland, Italy, Iceland, and Australia, have demonstrated the creation of perovskite crystals with ...

An international team of surface scientists has now developed a simple method to produce large and very clean 2D samples from a range of materials using three different substrates. Ever since the ...

More than ten years ago, researchers at Rice University led by materials scientist Boris Yakobson predicted that boron atoms would cling too tightly to copper to form borophene, a flexible, metallic ...

A new method to grow single crystals and simultaneously control their growth orientation without melt processing has been discovered by Texas A&M University materials science and engineering doctoral ...