In their recent CrystEngComm Hot Article, Isao Azumaya and colleagues describe how they made a channel-shaped network in the crystalline state from a simple spherical aromatic amide. This channel incorporated water molecules which form a tape-like chain network. Read the article to discover more about these water tapes….
Crystal structure of spherical aromatic amide: pseudopolymorphs and formation of infinite water cluster in the channel structure
Hyuma Masu, Yuko Sagara, Fumiaki Imabeppu, Hiroaki Takayanagi, Kosuke Katagiri, Masatoshi Kawahata, Masahide Tominaga, Hiroyuki Kagechika, Kentaro Yamaguchi and Isao Azumaya
CrystEngComm, 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00301H