Attractive metal-metal bonding occurs in a variety of molecules made of metallic atoms such as Iridium (Ir). These molecules can have different spatial arrangements, called isomers. Current ...

Bubble rafts have long been used to model the bonding and packing of atoms. This tool has also been useful in investigating the behavior of dislocations. Since the bonding of the bubbles is analogous ...

However, oxides with transition metals that straddle the subtle boundary between covalent, ionic and metallic bonding show copious ... multiferroicity. When atoms are put together to form a ...

Based on changes in atomic bond lengths, a similar polyamorphism has now been observed in structurally different metallic glasses. Polyamorphism describes the occurrence of differently ordered ...

X-ray diffraction techniques can determine the arrangement of atoms in a crystal by measuring the angles ... tend to be shorter (around 1-2 Å), while ionic and metallic bonds can be longer (up to 3 Å ...

The gas of electrons that binds metal atoms together makes metals behave as they do. Their mechanical properties in particular flow from the close-packed crystal structure favored by the metallic bond ...