A crystal with 50, yes 50!, facets features in this month’s Crystal Clear. The image was created by Zhimao Yang and colleagues at Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an in China from their work in a paper in Issue 20 of CrystEngComm.
The group made these highly symmetric polyhedral 50-facet structures using Cu2O via a facile seed-mediated solution phase route. The formation of these polyhedral architectures provides us with a great opportunity to understand the fundamental significance of high-index facets, in catalytic applications for example.
Looks a bit like a jade bead to me – perhaps there is a possibility of a pretty nanonecklace here if this group can string them together!
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Seed-mediated synthesis of polyhedral 50-facet Cu2O architectures
Shaodong Sun, Dongchu Deng, Chuncai Kong, Yang Gao, Shengchun Yang, Xiaoping Song, Bingjun Ding and Zhimao Yang
CrystEngComm, 2011, 13, 5993-5997 DOI: 10.1039/C1CE05243H
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