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Synthesis And Assembly Of Nonspherical Hollow Silica Colloids Under Confinement, Stephanie H. Lee, Sharon J. Gerbode, Bettina S. John, Angie K. Wolfgang, Fernando A. Escobedo, Itai Cohen, Chekesha M. Liddell Sep 2008

Synthesis And Assembly Of Nonspherical Hollow Silica Colloids Under Confinement, Stephanie H. Lee, Sharon J. Gerbode, Bettina S. John, Angie K. Wolfgang, Fernando A. Escobedo, Itai Cohen, Chekesha M. Liddell

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Hard peanut-shaped colloids were synthesized and organized into a degenerate crystal (DC), a phase previously observed only in simulations. In this structure, particle lobes tile a triangular lattice while their orientations uniformly populate the three underlying crystalline directions.