Self-Assembling Super-Crystals (3 of 5) (IMAGE)

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Self-Assembling Super-Crystals (3 of 5)

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An artistic rendering of a superparticle formed from self-assembling nanorods. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the Oct. 19, 2012, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Tie Wang at University of Florida in Gainesville, Fla., and colleagues was titled, "Self-Assembled Colloidal Superparticles from Nanorods."

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Image created by Dustin S. LaMontagne.

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