The most famous packing problem concerns spheres. In 1611, the astronomer Johannes Kepler proposed that the densest way to ...

Crystal pattern mapping can recover obliterated serial numbers in metals. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2015 / 02 / 150212102848.htm ...

NIST shows crystal pattern mapping can recover obliterated serial numbers in metals Peer-Reviewed Publication. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) ...

For more than a century, scientists have relied on crystallography—analyzing X-ray diffraction patterns—to uncover the atomic structures of materials. This method revolutionized fields from ...

A growing number of financial institutions are using a powerful combination of computer algorithms and customer data to better tailor their services to credit card holders. Known as predictive ...

The CSD-Materials suite now includes a CSD Python API feature based on the FIDEL method, known as AutoFIDEL, which allows for matching and optimizing crystal structures against experimental powder ...

THE three principal crystal structures of the metallic elements, the face-centred cubic (f.c.c), the body-centred cubic (b.c.c.) and the hexagonal close-packed (h.c.p.), follow a cyclic pattern as ...