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Chemistry World
March 6, 2014
Emma Stoye |
Buckyballs form up into quasicrystal layer Flat, two-dimensional layers of molecules structured like quasicrystals -- crystals that show order without repeating patterns -- have been made for the first time by scientists in the UK and Japan.   |
Chemistry World
November 2011 |
Quasicrystals Scoop Prize The 2011 Nobel prize in chemistry was awarded to Daniel Shechtman of the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, for the discovery of quasicrystals. |
Chemistry World
October 5, 2011
Laura Howes |
Crystals That Aren't Quite Crystalline Win Nobel Dany Shechtman took this year's chemistry Nobel Prize for his work on quasicrystals. |
Chemistry World
June 4, 2009
Phillip Broadwith |
Natural quasicrystals discovered Scientists have discovered a rare form of solid - a quasicrystal - in a rock sample from Russia's Koryak mountains. |
Chemistry World
August 13, 2015
Tim Wogan |
Quasicrystal first as scientists watch them growing under the microscope The first experimental observation of quasicrystal growth has been conducted in aluminum -- nickel -- cobalt by researchers in Japan. |
Chemistry World
July 24, 2012
Laura Howes |
Silica coaxed into quasicrystal form Mesoporous silica has been coaxed into dodecagonal quasicrystal structures by scientists at Stockholm University, Sweden. |
Chemistry World
April 22, 2014
Stephen McCarthy |
Molecules mimic mesmerizing mathematics Computer modelling has shown for the first time how organic molecules could assemble into molecular quasicrystals, raising the possibility of new materials with exotic properties. |
Chemistry World
November 16, 2010
Philip Ball |
Water takes forbidden form Researchers say that when water is confined between two flat plates just 8.5 Angstroms apart - room enough for just two molecular layers - it can adopt a quasicrystalline state which appears to have a 'forbidden' twelve-fold symmetry. |
Scientific American
August 2009
Philip Yam |
Whatever Happened to the Mars Rovers? Also: updates on stem cells from proteins, quasicrystals and a billion-year memory drive |
Chemistry World
October 29, 2015
Matthew Gunther |
Thin film perovskite solar cell passes the efficiency test A team of scientists has manufactured the first thin film perovskite solar cell with a reported efficiency that has been officially recognized by an accredited national test laboratory. |
Chemistry World
November 25, 2015
Jon Cartwright |
Perovskite boosts silicon solar cell efficiency A UK company claims it can boost the efficiency of a silicon solar cell by 20% by adding a layer of the light-sensitive crystal perovskite. |
Chemistry World
May 16, 2014
Vicki Marshall |
The future is lead-free for perovskite solar cells A lead-free and non-toxic alternative to current perovskite solar-cell technology has been reported by researchers in the UK: tin halide perovskite solar cells. |
Chemistry World
January 7, 2015
Andy Extance |
New ion continues perovskite solar's flat-out progress A perovskite solar cell using methylammonium lead bromide and formamidinium lead iodide sets a new efficiency record. |
Chemistry World
January 7, 2016
Matthew Gunther |
Stable caesium-doped perovskites boost silicon solar cells The caesium-doped lattice also has the potential to increase the efficiency of a conventional silicon solar cell when placed on top. |
Chemistry World
August 17, 2015
David Bradley |
Processed perovskite has superior stability A new perovskite solar cell with 16% efficiency has been developed by researchers from Switzerland and China. |
Chemistry World
May 21, 2015
Matthew Gunther |
Research shines light on perovskite solar cell manufacturing Scientists in South Korea who broke the efficiency record for a perovskite solar cell earlier this year have come up with a new method to manufacture them. |
Chemistry World
August 24, 2015
Tim Wogan |
Ultralight solar cells designed to drive drones An ultrathin, flexible, stretchable and lightweight 'solar foil' has been produced from perovskite solar cells by researchers in Austria. |
Chemistry World
September 25, 2015
Matthew Gunther |
Single layer perovskite sheet rises to the fore The ultrathin film will allow researchers to probe the electronic properties of the popular photovoltaic material and may lead to a new family of semiconductor components in optoelectronics. |
Chemistry World
February 11, 2014
Emma Stoye |
Dan Shechtman starts presidential campaign Dan Shechtman, who won the chemistry Nobel in 2011 for his work on quasicrystals, has begun his campaign to become president of Israel, meeting with politicians at the Knesset, the legislative arm of Israel's government. |
Chemistry World
October 11, 2012
Andy Extance |
Perovskite posits answer to xenon riddle If meteorites and the Earth were formed from similar materials at the same time, where did the xenon go? Some scientists think that the answer could be found in xenon trapped in the Earth's iron core, or in ice, water or rocks near the surface. |
