Crystals with Strange Talents (IMAGE)

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Crystals with Strange Talents

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These potassium diphosphate (KDP) crystals, which self-assemble in solution as hollow hexagonal rods, could find use in laser technology, particularly for fiber-optic communications. The scanning-electron image at right shows a crystal at higher resolution with scale added.

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L. Deng / NIST

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