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Nature 449, 550-551 (4 October 2007) | doi:10.1038/449550a; Published online 3 October 2007

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Materials science: Colloidal crystals find new order

F. Schüth1 & F. Marlow1

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A deft colloidal templating process allows simple-cubic crystals to be formed from more readily available complex precursors. It's a promising way to produce the regular crystals much in demand for photonics.

Colloidal crystals — arrangements of generally spherical particles between around 10 and 100 nanometres in size — typically assume a dense face-centred-cubic (f.c.

  1. F. Schüth and F. Marlow are at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz 1, 45470 Mülheim, Germany.
    Email: schueth@mpi-muelheim.mpg.de

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