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Snow Crystals
This site contains wonderful information on snow
crystals, natural and designer. It includes a photo gallery and a section
on the physics of snow crystals.
Hydrogel-based nanoparticles make photonic crystals
UniSci reports on photonic crystals which have optical
properties which can be precisely tuned by thermally adjusting the
particles’ water content.
Building the Devil’s Staircase
A 1-mm-wide drop of soap-like molecules and water can
form a rigid gel crystal that displays more facets than any crystal ever
observed. The prediction of almost unlimited numbers of facets was called
the "Devil's staircase."
Polymer Crystallinity
This page discusses polymer crystals, any object in
which the molecules are arranged in a regular order and
pattern.
The American Institute of Physics Bulletin of
Physics News
Liquid crystals can exhibit both spatial and temporal
patterns.
Build a Buckyball
This includes a discussion
of the C60 molecule and directions for building a paper model of
a truncated icosahedron.
Space Crew Grows Crystals, Could be Real Gas
Learn why
space station workers are growing zeolite crystals and why they are
important.
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