Take a spherical carbon 'buckyball', feather it with rod-like molecules, and the result is a distinctive shuttlecock shape that can easily be stacked into columns. Liquid-crystal phases thus formed should have unusual properties.
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Tschierske, C. Liquid crystals stack up. Nature 419, 681–683 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/419681a
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