The hexagonal crystal structure of ice is well known in the bulk phase — but the initial steps of ice formation on a surface, despite its relevance in fields ranging from biology to atmospheric ...

Supramolecular assemblies are nanostructures resulting from molecules binding together, through intermolecular interactions, into larger units. One approach for controlling supramolecular assembly ...

Scientists have observed novel ergodicity-breaking in C60, a highly symmetric molecule composed of 60 carbon atoms arranged on the vertices of a 'soccer ball' pattern (with 20 hexagon faces and 12 ...

They say that no two snowflakes are the same, but like all natural ice crystals they are only variations on the same six-sided theme. Now physicists have found the first evidence of pentagonal ice ...

Yong Chen, Karl Lark-Horovitz Professor of physics and astronomy and professor of electrical and computer engineering, director of the Purdue Quantum Science and Engineering Institute, and director of ...

Researchers discovered that gold, copper and iron nanocrystals form pentagonal snowflake-like patterns during rapid chemical ...

A team of UK researchers has grown ice crystals in which the water molecules are arranged into pentagons rather than the hexagons found in every natural snowflake. The unusual ice was grown on a ...