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What happens if some of the particles of a superlattice — an array of identical nanoscale crystals — are replaced with foreign ones? It emerges that the properties of superlattices can be radically altered in this way. See Letter p.450

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Figure 1: Alternative outcomes from superlattice doping.

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  1. Daniel Vanmaekelbergh is in the Department of Chemistry, Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science, University of Utrecht, Utrecht 3584 CC, the Netherlands.,

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Vanmaekelbergh, D. Superlattice substitution. Nature 524, 418–419 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/524418a

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