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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a recent Science paper, researchers led by JILA and NIST Fellow Jun Ye, along with collaborators JILA and NIST Fellow David Nesbitt, scientists from the University of Nevada, Reno, and Harvard ...

One-dimensional islands that grow during ice nucleation at low temperatures on a copper(110) surface are identified as chains of water-molecule pentagons. This unexpected molecular arrangement ...

How does ice form in winter? It is generally known that ice forms a hexagonal ring structure, as can be seen in beautiful snowflake crystals. However, a joint US-China research team has revealed that, ...

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 ...