Living Crystal (IMAGE)

Rockefeller University

Living Crystal

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Thiovulum cells cluster together to form a repeating pattern known hexagonal lattice. It is the densest geometrical arrangement for things of uniform size, and it appears frequently in nature, in bees' honeycomb, for example.

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The Laboratory of Condensed Matter Physics at Rockefeller University/Physical Review Letters

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