Chirality—often described as "handedness"—is a fundamental property of nature, underlying the behavior of molecules ranging ...

During chemical reactions, atoms in the reacting substances break their bonds and re-arrange, forming different chemical ...

Over the past few years, transmission electron microscopy (TEM) has been revolutionized, not only by the introduction of new hardware such as field-emission electron guns, aberration correctors and ...

Delivering a lecture in 1959, theoretical physicist, Richard Feynman, wondered out loud: “What would the properties of materials be if we could really arrange the atoms the way we want them?” The ...

An interatomic potential is a set of mathematical rules that describes the complex dance of forces between atoms — how atomic ...