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Domains stack up

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Stacked bilayers can exhibit columnar alignment of phase-separated domains that propagates across hundreds of layers. The serial coupling of functionality that may result from such a long-range arrangement should lead to new applications in photonics and sensing.

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Figure 1: Interlayer alignment of intralayer domains in stacked lipid multilayers.

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  1. Burkhard Bechinger is at the Université de Strasbourg/CNRS, UMR7177, Institut de Chimie, 1, rue Blaise Pascal, 67070 Strasbourg, France,

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Bechinger, B. Domains stack up. Nature Mater 11, 1005–1006 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat3507

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