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Published online 3 January 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news020101-1

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New state of matter made

Physicists have created a patterned liquid.

Physicists in Germany have made a new type of matter by trapping globules of an unusual liquid in a regular array of dimples. They call their creation a patterned fluid.

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