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Behold, liquid carbon
Carbon is famous for its many solid forms. It’s the soot in air pollution, the graphite in pencil leads, and the glittering diamond in expensive jewellery. It’s also the carbon nanotubes in biosensors and fullerenes in organic solar cells. However, … Continue reading
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Tagged density functional theory, European XFEL, glassy carbon, Lennard-Jones model, liquid carbon, molecular dynamics, quantum simulation, shockwaves, short-range order, static structure factor, X-ray diffraction, X-rays
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A new beast: antiferromagnetic quasicrystals
Scientists have made a new material that is both a quasicrystal and antiferromagnetic — a combination never seen before. Quasicrystals are a special kind of solid. Unlike normal crystals, whose atoms are arranged in repeating patterns, quasicrystals have patterns that … Continue reading
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Tagged antiferromagnetism, approximant crystals, arc melting, crystallography, Curie-Weiss temperature, electron diffraction, ferromagnetism, magnetic order, magnetisation, neutron diffraction, quantum spin, quasicrystals, quasiperiodic order, rare-earth elements, specific heat, spintronics, Tsai quasicrystal, X-ray diffraction
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