Elucidation of the framework structure of zeolites can sometimes prove difficult. The combination of powder diffraction and electron microscopy using a charge-flipping algorithm enables ordered ...

Silicon, located below carbon in group 14 of the periodic table, usually combines with four atoms to form a tetracoordinated silicon structure, and it can form a bond with another silicon atom ...

Nov 21, 2018: Atom-by-atom construction of an artificial molecule (Nanowerk News) In chemistry, the wave functions of electrons bound to nuclei determine the chemical characteristics of atomic and ...

Silicon, a semi-metal, bonds in its natural form with four other elements and its three-dimensional structure takes the form of a tetrahedron. For a long time, it seemed impossible to achieve the ...

Silicon, a semi-metal, bonds in its natural form with four other elements and its three-dimensional structure takes the form of a tetrahedron. For a long time, it seemed impossible to achieve the ...

image: Silicon nanocrystals glowing in front of the solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer used to illuminate their unique layered structure.

Scientists in the United States theorized that a new allotrope of silicon – the same element arranged into a different atomic structure – could show greatly improved photovoltaic performance ...

Silicon, a semi-metal, bonds in its natural form with four other elements and its three-dimensional structure takes the form of a tetrahedron. For a long time, it seemed impossible to achieve the ...

New research provides insight into the structure of silicon nanocrystals, a substance that promises to provide efficient lithium ion batteries that power your phone to medical imaging on the ...

The net result was a perovskite that, on its own, had an efficiency of over 20 percent. When combined with silicon into a tandem device, the efficiency cleared 32 percent.