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Nanocrystals come to order

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The properties of most materials are intimately connected to the way in which they are ordered on the atomic scale. A new study suggests that in materials made from the regular three-dimensional arrangement of discrete nanocrystals, control of order and periodicity could be exploited at a whole new level.

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    Mathias Brust

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Brust, M. Nanocrystals come to order. Nature Mater 4, 364–365 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat1380

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