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Why does nature keep making perfect cubical pyrite crystals?
Walk into any mineral shop and one of the first thing ... The seven main crystal systems—cubic, tetragonal, orthorhombic, hexagonal, trigonal, monoclinic, and triclinic—describe the spatial ...
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Promising strategy leverages atomic displacements to control quantum properties of a vanadate perovskite
Perovskites, materials with a crystal structure that mirrors that of the mineral calcium titanate ... "In the present work, we used two cuts of an orthorhombic substrate material, YAlO 3, which ...