Framework sets new benchmarks for 3D atom maps in amorphous materials

Researchers at the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA published a step-by-step framework for determining the ...
Nature

This AI has chemical expertise — and helps synthesize 35 new compounds

It uses a system called simplified molecular-input line-entry system (SMILES). This translates chemical 3D structures into ...

Highly stable Cu₄₅ superatom could transform carbon recycling

After years of trying, scientists have finally created a stable superatom of copper, a long-sought-after chemical ...

Atoms Don’t Sit Still: Scientists Catch Them Roaming Before X-Ray Damage Strikes

Researchers have uncovered how atoms subtly rearrange themselves for up to a trillionth of a second before releasing ...
Nature

Arranging atoms to create next-generation materials

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 ...