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Pleated crystals

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A neat study that involves placing colloidal particles on curved oil-glycerol interfaces reveals a new form of crystal defect. The defect is called a pleat, by analogy to the age-old type of fabric fold. See Letter p.947

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  1. Francesco Stellacci and Andreas Mortensen are in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne 1015, Switzerland. francesco.stellacci@epfl.ch,

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