Quasicrystals, once considered impossible, were found in a 3D-printed aluminum alloy – and they make it stronger. This could ...

Electron microscope image of the aluminum alloy from ... To confirm they had a quasicrystal, Iams had to carefully rotate the ...

Andrew Iams, a materials research engineer at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), saw something strange while looking through his electron microscope ... to carefully ...

Under certain conditions ... first proposed by Nobel laureate Eugene Wigner, is the Wigner crystal—a structured electron arrangement caused by their mutual repulsion. Although widely theorized ...

Look at these glucose crystals ... scanning electron microscope scatters electrons across the surface of a specimen. It can magnify in incredible detail. This is a leaf surface under a scanning ...