Chemists have been able to look at the interface between water and muscovite mica, a flat mineral commonly found in granite, soils and many sediments. In particular, the researchers looked at the ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Materials scientists can now use insight from a very common mineral and well-established earthquake and avalanche statistics to quantify how hostile environmental interactions may ...

Muscovite mica is a common layered phyllosilicate mineral with perfect cleavage planes. These atomically flat surfaces are ideal for studying minerals and clays using scanning probe techniques with ...

THE revised cost of the Mica redress scheme could reach a massive €2.7billion. Some 7,000 homes mainly across Donegal and Mayo have been affected by the faulty blocks which contain the mineral ...

Dream homes in Ireland, just as in Connecticut, are turning to nightmares because of dangerous minerals in their concrete. In Connecticut, pyrrhotite is causing basement walls to crack and crumble.

New drilling results at Conchas reveal surface areas rich in lithium and rubidium, a discovery that could potentially end reliance on China.

The Cabinet today approved a redress scheme for private houses affected by bad blocks containing high levels of the mineral mica in Donegal, RTÉ's Prime Time has learned. The scheme is to be ...

My first memory of mica (the mineral) was going rockhounding with my dad in Ruggles Mine back in the '60s. I was little and the caves seemed huge, the mica glittered, and I remember huge transparent ...

Researchers demonstrate strain-free van der Waals epitaxy of the elemental semiconductor germanium grown on mica, which has implications ranging from faster integrated circuits to high-efficiency ...