Scientists Discovered a Nuclear Island That Flies in the Face of Traditional Chemistry

Known as “islands of inversion,” these odd regions are found among a sea of normal nuclei. Now, a new island may have been ...
IEEE

A Gaussian Parameterization for Direct Atomic Structure Identification in Electron Tomography

Abstract: Atomic electron tomography (AET) enables the determination of 3D atomic structures by acquiring a sequence of 2D tomographic projection measurements of a particle and then computationally ...
Interesting Engineering

Scientists crush gold at 10 million times Earth pressure to reveal new structure

Artist’s illustration of gold compressed to ultra-high pressures by laser pulses at the National Ignition Facility.Jacob Long/LLNL Researchers have captured the most detailed look yet at how gold’s ...
Phys.org

Watching gold's atomic structure change at 10 million times Earth's atmospheric pressure

The inside of giant planets can reach pressures more than one million times the Earth's atmosphere. As a result of that intense pressure, materials can adopt unexpected structures and properties.
Greek Reporter

Researchers Build First Low-Cost Microscope That Can Spot Atomic-Scale Structures

Microscope close-up. Credit: University of Liverpool Faculty – CC BY 2.0 via Flickr. A research team from the University of Victoria says it has reached a microscopy breakthrough with a way to see ...
IEEE

Ensemble Cross UNet Transformers for Augmentation of Atomic Electron Tomography

Abstract: Investigating atomic structures and tracing precise atomic coordinates through atomic electron tomography (AET) are crucial for understanding the properties of functional materials.
University of Arkansas

Atomic Ordering Discovery Opens Avenues for Semiconductor Design

Inside the microchips powering the device you're reading this on, the atoms have a hidden order all their own. A team led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and George Washington University in ...
Phys.org

Scientists visualize atomic structures in moiré materials

Researchers with the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, have created an innovative method to visualize and analyze atomic structures ...
EurekAlert!

Scientists visualize atomic structures in moiré materials

On the left is an artistic depiction of a twisted double layer forming a moiré pattern created by overlapping 2D sheets; each layer’s structure is shown separately on the right. Researchers with the ...
C&EN

MicroscopyGPT: Generating Atomic-Structure Captions from Microscopy Images of 2D Materials with Vision-Language Transformers

Material Measurement Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Whiting School of ...
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From surviving an atomic bomb to sprouting in the UN Food Garden

Two saplings from a persimmon tree that survived the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima were planted in the UN Food Garden in New York, commemorating the eightieth anniversaries of the bombings and the ...