Revealing the molecular orientations of anisotropic materials is desired in materials science and soft-matter physics. Now, an optical diffraction tomographic approach enables the direct reconstruction of dielectric tensors of anisotropic structures in three dimensions.
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Sentenac, A., Maire, G. & Chaumet, P.C. Volume imaging of anisotropic materials. Nat. Mater. 21, 269–271 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-022-01213-5
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