You might have seen sped-up videos of how some crystals form. Maybe you did the famous experiment of putting a metal ring in a solution rich in salt, and saw little crystals forming on it. Water is a ...

NYU researchers discovered a new crystal—a rod-shaped, hollow, low-density structure, shown here in experiments and simulations—naming it "Zangenite" for the NYU graduate student who found it. Credit: ...

Scientifically speaking, the term "crystal" refers to any solid that has an ordered chemical structure. This means that its parts are arranged in a precisely ordered pattern, like bricks in a wall.

NYU scientists are using light to precisely control how tiny particles organize themselves into crystals. Their research, published in the Cell Press journal Chem, provides a simple and reversible ...

Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors, only a few atomic layers thick, are promising materials for making AI chips faster and ...

A team of New York University researchers has created a new way to visualize crystals by peering inside their structures, akin to having X-ray vision. Their new technique—which they aptly named ...

In exploring how crystals form, the researchers also came across an unusual, rod-shaped crystal that hadn’t been identified before, naming it “Zangenite” for the NYU graduate student who discovered it ...

Crystals—from sugar and table salt to snowflakes and diamonds—don’t always grow in a straightforward way. New York University researchers have captured this journey from amorphous blob to orderly ...