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Flexible Nanoparticle Superlattices: A New Path to Designer Materials
For twenty years, materials scientists insisted that nanoparticle crystals needed rigid molecular connectors to stay ordered.
MIT researchers just did the opposite: they made the connectors extremely flexible and watched entirely new crystal structures appear. This episode unpacks the counterintuitive discovery that is rewriting the rules of designer materials.
This episode includes AI-generated content.
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