Databases of materials serve an increasingly important role in research. They enable discovery of trends that may not be discernible at the scale most scientific research groups work. Gazzarrini et al ...

However, scientists noticed that around 60 percent of structures in both databases have primitive unit cells (the smallest possible cell in a crystal structure) made out of a multiple of 4 atoms. The ...

Why are materials with specific characteristics more abundant than others? This is a fundamental question in materials science and one that is traditionally difficult to tackle, given the vastness of ...