This zone, which lies at the border of the lesion, between the main body and the translucent zone or normal enamel, shows positive birefringence when the section is placed in quinoline and viewed ...

Tianjin Key Laboratory of Functional Crystal Materials, Institute of Functional Crystal, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin 300384, China State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials and Institute ...

Researchers have found that adding just the right amount of disorder to the structure of certain materials can make them more than twice as resistant to cracking.

A study finds that adding controlled disorder to mechanical metamaterials more than doubles toughness, making them more crack ...

Nonlinear optics is the study of how intense light interacts with matter. The optical response of a material usually scales linearly with the amplitude of the electric field. At high powers ...

Cut open a bone and you'll see a subtly disordered structure. Tiny beams, called trabeculae, connect to one another in irregular patterns ...

Polymers and Complex Fluids Group, Materials Science and Engineering Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Dr, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States ...