With a charge, researchers got microparticles to form via self-assembly into complex crystals that mimic gemstones like opals.

Perovskite nanocrystals hold promise for improving lasers, LEDs, and more—but durability is a problem. Plastic "hair" and a silica shell may change that.

A 2D catalyst has allowed researchers to develop an inorganic method of synthesizing ammonia.

A new "smart skin" can change colors just like a chameleons skin, but it also fixes a major problem with other color-changing materials—the way they shrink.

Polycystic kidney disease has no cure and affects roughly 600,000 people in the United States.

Researchers have plans for a microscopic crystal that can trap to wavelengths of light, which could lead to quantum computers and faster telecommunications.

"In a single day, on a regular computer, we were able to study more different kinds of particles than have been reported in the last decade."

Controlling light from exotic crystal semiconductors could pave the way for better solar panels, displays, and more.

A new rubbery, shape-shifting material goes from one sophisticated form to another on demand.

"Single-component quasicrystal lattices have been predicted mathematically and in computer simulations, but hadn't been demonstrated before this."