A century-old puzzle on the apparent contradiction that some materials disorder as they are cooled gains universality following new observations of closed-loop phase behaviour in a block-copolymer system.
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Ruzette, AV. Copolymers close the loop. Nature Mater 1, 85–87 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat739
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