Most solid materials we rely on, from steel, to plastics and ceramics, are designed to have specific properties. Whether a material is soft and flexible, or stiff and tough depends on how molecules ...

University of Oregon physicist Eric Corwin and a team of current and former students have used computer simulations to ...

Scientists led by a physicist at the University of Oregon have taken a major step in solving an enduring mystery that we ...

A research team from Aarhus University, Denmark, has measured and explained the exceptionally low thermal conductivity of the crystalline material AgGaGe₃Se₈. Despite its ordered structure, the ...

For a long time, it was thought that amorphous solids do not selectively absorb light because of their disordered atomic structure. A new study disproves this theory and shows that amorphous solids ...

Scientists led by a physicist at the University of Oregon have taken a major step in solving an enduring mystery that we encounter every time we look ...