An effective route to investigate complex periodic motifs in liquid crystals reveals that molecular packing alone can result in a tricontinuous network of channels separated by two periodic surfaces.
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Holyst, R. Infinite networks of surfaces. Nature Mater 4, 510–511 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat1419
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