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Melting also on cooling

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Colloidal particles interacting through DNA linkers can be designed to form solids that melt when either heated or cooled. This scenario widens the temperature window in which colloidal superlattices form by reducing kinetic bottlenecks.

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Figure 1: Schematic of a re-entrant melting scenario in DNA-linked colloids6.

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  1. Oleg Gang is at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA,

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Gang, O. Melting also on cooling. Nature Mater 11, 487–488 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat3344

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