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The image shows the patterning of mesogenic discotic liquid crystals printed by lithographically controlled wetting using a micrometric grid as a stamp. Image taken from the protocol by Cavallini et al. doi 10.1038/nprot.2012.094. Cover design by Jamel Wooten.