Stacked bilayers can exhibit columnar alignment of phase-separated domains that propagates across hundreds of layers. The serial coupling of functionality that may result from such a long-range arrangement should lead to new applications in photonics and sensing.
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Bechinger, B. Domains stack up. Nature Mater 11, 1005–1006 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat3507
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