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Growing ordered crystals.(researched by International Business Machines Corp. and Columbia University)(Brief article)

R & D, March, 2006

Scientists at IBM, White Plains, N.Y., and Columbia Univ., New York, N.Y., have created conditions necessary for the successful self-assembly of at least 10 novel crystal arrangements, helping scientists grow ordered superlattice crystals as opposed to manipulating or machining them. The materials used as building blocks are a variety of manmade nanocrystals whose properties can be tailored during synthesis, and deposited to form the desired ordered array by controlling particle charge and other properties.

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