June Crystal Clear: Nanoscale Olympic torch

This month’s Crystal Clear is a tungsten oxide nanobrush made using oriented attachment and Ostwald ripening.

The brushes look like torches, and with sports fans doing their best to get London 2012 olympic tickets today, and the excitement of the games coming to the UK next year grows, we thought CrystEngComm should get involved!

We are therefore delighted to present a nanoscale olympic torch!

These crystals were made by Wolfgang Tremel and co-workers from Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Germany and the National Institute for Materials Science, Japan, and appeared in Issue 13 of CrystEngComm, a themed issue on Dynamic behaviour and reactivity in crystalline solids, guest edited by Graeme Day and Tomislav Friščić from Cambridge University.

Read the full article if you’d like to find out more about these crystals…

Asymmetric tungsten oxide nanobrushes via oriented attachment and Ostwald ripening
Aswani Yella, Ujjal K. Gautam, Enrico Mugnaioli, Martin Panthöfer, Yoshio Bando, Dmitri Golberg, Ute Kolb and Wolfgang Tremel
CrystEngComm, 2011, 13, 4074-4081

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