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

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have discovered something surprising that could ...

Andrew Iams saw something strange while looking through his electron microscope. He was examining a sliver of a new aluminum ...

NIST researchers have found that non-repeating quasicrystals create defects in 3D printed aluminum that strengthen the metal.

Scientists have discovered a rare and powerful crystal hidden inside a 3D-printed aluminum alloy. This unusual crystal, ...

The melting of crystals is the process by which an increase in temperature induces the disruption of the ordered crystalline ...

In 2017, a team at HRL Laboratories, based in California, and UC Santa Barbara discovered a high-strength aluminum alloy that could be 3D printed. They found that adding zirconium to the aluminum ...

LLNL researchers are pioneering a coaxial DIW method for 3D printing cholesteric liquid crystal elastomers (CLCEs).

3D printing creates shapes that would be impossible ... That means there are five ways to rotate the crystal around an axis so that it looks the same. "Fivefold symmetry is very rare.