A long-standing mystery in materials science is beginning to unravel as researchers directly probe the hidden atomic ...

The intermediate range order of covalent glasses has been extensively studied in terms of the first sharp diffraction peak (FSDP), but the direct observation of the atomic density fluctuations that ...

Accelerator-based high-energy electron diffraction determines 3D atomic structure of materials New method using ultrashort ...

Researchers from ICTER have developed a fragment-based drug discovery method combined with microcrystal electron diffraction to design enzyme inhibitors at atomic resolution. The approach aims to ...

Scientists have observed “bending” atoms using a crystal grating—an experiment once believed impossible at the high energies required. The authors of a new, non-peer reviewed study detail how the a ...

Antiferromagnetic materials, with antiparallel atomic spins and zero net magnetization, are fast and resistant to external ...

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

ICTER scientists achieve atomic-level precision in drug design Researchers from the International Centre for Translational Eye Research (ICTER) have unveiled a two-pronged approach to drug design that ...

Positronium shouldn't last long enough to be interesting. It's an "atom" assembled from an electron and its antimatter twin — ...

In materials science, particularly in the study of glasses, the intermediate range order (IRO) is one of the most intriguing research areas owing to its significant influence over the physical ...