Gold has a reputation for being one of the most stable, predictable elements in the periodic table, but under crushing pressures and searing temperatures it turns out to be anything but simple. By ...

The Queen Mary research shows that graphene is 3D as well as 2D. CREDIT Yiwei Sun Contrary to what is believed, monolayer graphene (a sheet of carbon just one atomic layer thick) has 3D mechanical ...

Pressure is one of the canonical thermodynamic variables which control the equilibrium conditions of a physical system and, as such, it has been used for centuries as a control parameter to drive a ...

Scientists have revealed how gold’s atomic structure shifts when the metal is crushed under pressures 10 million times greater than Earth’s atmosphere. The study, led by the Lawrence Livermore ...