Metallic glasses are amorphous solids formed by cooling a metallic melt fast enough to avoid crystallization. First reported in 1960 (Ref. 1), metallic glasses are now known to form at very many ...

Graphene nanoribbon Scanning tunnelling microscope image of a wide-band metallic graphene nanoribbon (GNR). Each cluster of protrusions corresponds to a singly occupied electron orbital. The formation ...

A computer simulation shows metallic alloy where atoms (colored spheres) are arranged in subtle chemical patterns beneath a network of dislocations (green lines). These tangled defects move during ...

For decades, the development of metallic glasses (materials with a disordered, glassy atomic structure instead of a crystalline one) has faced a fundamental dilemma. To make a glass resist heat and ...

Under normal conditions, pure water is an almost perfect insulator. Water only develops metallic properties under extreme pressure, such as exists deep inside of large planets. Now, an international ...

Researchers use mass spectroscopy and ultrafast laser pulses to interrogate chromium oxides in unprecedented detail. If you're old enough, you may still have a box of cassette or VHS tapes lying ...