Material engineers and scientists have long wanted to understand the atomic structures of amorphous solids such as glass, rubber and plastics more fully. Unlike the structures of crystalline materials ...

THE eighth Edgar Marburg lecture of the American Society for Testing Materials was delivered by Dr. H. J. Gough, his subject being “Crystalline Structure in Relation to Failure of Metals—especially by ...

From carrying current on a computer's circuit boards to holding up skyscrapers, metal has countless uses, thanks to its special characteristics: It's hard and strong, yet it's bendable. It can be ...

Scientists are on a journey to uncover clues about hydrogen’s most elusive phase—solid metallic hydrogen. The prize for discovering it could be room temperature superconductivity—a world first. But ...