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Nanocrystals by design

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Nanocrystals with precisely defined structures offer promise as components of advanced materials yet they are challenging to create. Now, a nanocrystal made up of seven cadmium and twelve chloride ions has been synthesized via a biotemplating approach that uses a de novo designed protein.

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Figure 1: Protein nanoreactors for biomineralization.

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  1. Li Shang and Gerd Ulrich Nienhaus are in the Institute of Applied Physics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Wolfgang-Gaede-Strasse 1, D-76131 Karlsruhe, Germany,

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Shang, L., Nienhaus, G. Nanocrystals by design. Nature Chem 7, 769–770 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.2357

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