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SUBMITTER: Wang Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5316806 | biostudies-other | 2017 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Wang Yifan Y Jenkins Ian C IC McGinley James T JT Sinno Talid T Crocker John C JC
Nature communications 20170213
Future optical materials promise to do for photonics what semiconductors did for electronics, but the challenge has long been in creating the structure they require-a regular, three-dimensional array of transparent microspheres arranged like the atoms in a diamond crystal. Here we demonstrate a simple approach for spontaneously growing double-diamond (or B32) crystals that contain a suitable diamond structure, using DNA to direct the self-assembly process. While diamond symmetry crystals have be ...[more]