March Crystal Clear: Crystal ball pools

Crystal Clear is feeling playful, so we’ve chosen Zhimao Yang’s ball shaped creations as our favourite crystal this month.

This month’s Crystal Clear is taken from Issue 7 of CrystEngComm, and shows highly symmetric multi-faceted polyhedral Cu2O crystals made by a template-free complex-precursor solution route.

Read the full article to find out more…

Highly symmetric polyhedral Cu2O crystals with controllable-index planes
Shaodong Sun, Chuncai Kong, Shengchun Yang, Liqun Wang, Xiaoping Song, Bingjun Ding and Zhimao Yang
CrystEngComm, 2011, 13, 2217-2221
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00679C, Communication

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