If you hold one wire mesh on top of another one and look through it, you'll see a larger pattern called a moiré pattern formed by the overlapping grids of the two meshes, which depends on their ...

A concise, comical explanation of Moiré patterns, via XKCD. Moiré patterns are interference patterns created when grids of different size or alignment are placed over each other. You’ve probably seen ...

Scientists have visualized the two parts of an elusive particle -- the moiré exciton -- to reveal its structure and unique properties. Published in leading journal Nature, scientists from the Okinawa ...

If you’ve ever seen artifacts on a digital picture of a computer monitor, or noticed an unsettling shifting pattern on a TV displaying someone’s clothes which have stripes, you’ve seen what’s called a ...

Researchers use metal-organic frameworks to fine-tune moire patterns, paving the way for advances in superconductivity, photonics, and quantum technologies. Until now, controlling the exact scale of ...