Liquid crystals are substances that flow like a liquid but maintain some of the ordered structure of crystals. Liquid-crystal molecules tend to be elongated and to orient in specific directions.

Since each of the six arms of the crystal would appear to be growing independently, this symmetry poses a problem in crystal growth, for it almost seems as if each arm of the six-ray star ‘knows ...

State Key Laboratory of Silicon and Advanced Semiconductor Materials and School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang310027, China Institute of Advanced ...

Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Polar crystals, which display pyroelectricity and piezoelectricity, can serve as a useful tool in the research of solid-state chemistry. However, ...

Presley Ann/Getty Actor Billy Crystal might be known forever to many as Harry from the 1989 film When Harry Met Sally, but to Jennifer Crystal Foley and Lindsay Crystal, he’s always been Dad.

The Big Bang should have created equal amounts of matter and antimatter in the early universe. But today, everything we see from the smallest life forms on Earth to the largest stellar objects is made ...