Nitrenes are the ghosts of synthetic chemistry, formed in an instant and gone just as quickly, rearranging into something ...

A joint research team led by Yuuki Kubo and Shiji Tsuneyuki of the University of Tokyo has developed a new computational method that can efficiently determine the crystal structures of multiphase ...

Intermetallic compounds are ordered alloys of two or more metallic elements that adopt discrete crystal structures and exhibit distinctive physical properties. Crystal structure analysis of these ...

Organic molecular crystals can respond to external stimuli such as heat, light, and mechanical force, making them attractive ...

For thousands of these materials, X-ray diffraction patterns exist but remain unsolved. To try to crack the structures of these materials, Freedman and her colleagues trained a machine-learning model ...

For decades, chemists have relied on boron-bound nitrenes as fleeting intermediates in synthesis, but no one has been able to ...

Materials scientists at Rice University have developed a new workflow methodology for measuring microscopic defects in ...

XRD works by directing X-rays onto a crystalline material and analyzing the angles and intensities of the diffracted beams. The atomic planes within the crystal act as a three-dimensional grating, ...

MOF thin films, as porous materials, play a key role in many potential applications. Researchers have now demonstrated that the prototypical example for thin films has a completely different structure ...

The new method can determine crystal structures underlying experimental data thus far difficult to analyze. A joint research team led by Yuuki Kubo and Shiji Tsuneyuki of the University of Tokyo has ...