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Osmotically shocked

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Coordinated osmotic shocks within ordered materials lead to nanoperforated multilayer structures that may find application in photonics, optoelectronics and ultrafiltration.

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Figure 1: Perforated multilayers with look-alike structures.
Figure 2: The cracking power of osmotic imbalances.

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  1. Patrick Theato and Goran Ungar: Both authors also belong to the School of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

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  1. Patrick Theato is at the Institute for Technical and Macromolecular Chemistry, University of Hamburg, Bundesstr. 45, D-20146 Hamburg, Germany,

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  2. Goran Ungar is at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Sheffield, Mappin Street, Sheffield S1 3JD, UK,

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