(Nanowerk News) Active Brownian motion describes particles which can propel themselves forwards, while still being subjected to random Brownian motions as they are jostled around by their neighbouring ...

An international group of researchers from the EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), the University of Texas at Austin and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany ...

Moving pictures: microscope image of a quasicrystal two days after release. The right half has been colour coded. (Courtesy: Po-Yuan Wang and Thomas Mason/Nature) A quasicrystal made from tiny Penrose ...

Heterogeneous liquid samples are frequently subjected to dynamic light scattering as the method depends on the Brownian Motion effect to identify dispersed particles by their hydrodynamic radii. This ...

Brownian motion describes the random movement of particles in fluids, however, this revolutionary model only works when a fluid is static, or at equilibrium. In real-life, fluids often contain ...

Thomas Mason, University of California, Los Angeles -- A beautiful example of a hierarchically organized multi-scale structure is Penrose's five-fold P2 quasi-crystal (QC). Kites and darts are ...

NYU scientists are using light to precisely control how tiny particles organize themselves into crystals. Their research, published in Chem, provides a simple and reversible method for forming ...