Materials for extreme environments can help to protect people, structures and the planet.
Extreme temperatures in aeroplane engines, hypervelocity micrometeoroid impacts on …

There are many reasons to report on silica interacting with biomolecules. The most obvious
one is that on the Earth's crust, oxygen and silicon are the most abundant atomic species …

We have developed a method for crystal structure prediction from “scratch” through particle-
swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm within the evolutionary scheme. PSO technique is …

When it was learned that Professor Scholze was revising his classic work on the nature,
structure, and properties of glass, it was natural to conceive the idea of translating the new …

Die exakte wissenschaftliche Forschung auf dem Gebiet der Keramik hat erst zum Ende des
19. Jahrhunderts eingesetzt. Die dabei gewonnenen Erkenntnisse dienten nicht nur der …

Almost immediately after the discovery of kimberlites, the atten tion of investigators was
attracted to their unusual mineralogy. It has been established that, besides the fragments …

The bulk chemical composition of the Upper Mantle (“pyrolite”) is derived from experimental
and petrological studies of the complementary relationships between basaltic magmas and …

The elastic properties of silica phases are reviewed. Available monocrystal data for
crystalline SiO2 polymorphs (low-quartz, high-quartz, low-cristobalite, high-cristobalite …

Static pressure apparatus has been developed which is capable of pressures up to 200 kbar
and transient temperatures up to about 5000° K, using an electric flash‐heating technique …

Abstract Analysis of correlations between various physical properties of solids provides a
formulation of simple criteria applicable to the search for new superhard materials. The …