Study reveals how to break symmetry in colloidal crystals - EurekAlert

While plenty of structures with low symmetry are found in nature, scientists have been confined to high-symmetry designs when synthesizing colloidal crystals. Now, research shows how low-symmetry crystals can be made — including one phase for which there is n…
image: This triple-double gyroid is a new colloidal crystal structure that has never been found in nature or synthesized before. The translucent red/green/blue balls show the positions of programmabl… [+5830 chars] Read More