Crystalline materials news, October 2022

Catalyst sees the light to produce hard and soft polymer

Using light and a catalyst, researchers have been able to produce a soft and stretchy version and a hard and rigid version of the same polymer.

DNA helps colloidal crystals pull themselves together

Researchers have shown that colloidal crystals comprising arrays of nanoparticles held together by DNA have shape-memory properties.

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Twisted hexagonal boron nitride puts on a smiley face

Researchers have developed a solid-state ‘twisted’ crystalline layered material that can give rise to tiny light-emitting points called color centers.

Perovskites could light up optical fibers

Using an inexpensive temperature-growth method, researchers have managed to produce single-crystal perovskite optical fibers.