As the focus on energy resiliency and competitiveness increases, the development of advanced materials for next-generation, ...

A metallic bond between two beryllium atoms has been forged for the first time in the lab. The development could pave the way for the creation of new materials. “Going back 100 years ...

This is due to the increased positive charge on the metal ion and the increased number of electrons that are delocalised, resulting in stronger bonding.

Even metals can turn into glass (see box “Mastering the metallic”). Often, the optical and electronic ... are offering fundamentally new insights into chemical bonding (see box “The future of ...

“Although GaN is a wide-bandgap semiconductor with mixed ionic and covalent bonding, and Mg is a metal featuring metallic bonding, these two dissimilar materials have the same crystal ...

This tool has also been useful in investigating the behavior of dislocations. Since the bonding of the bubbles is analogous to the non-directional metallic bonding, the bubbles in the bubble raft ...