Seeing mesoatomic distortions in soft-matter crystals of a double-gyroid block copolymer

• Published in: Nature (London) Vol. 575; no. 7781; pp. 175 - 179
• Main Authors: Feng, Xueyan, Burke, Christopher J., Zhuo, Mujin, Guo, Hua, Yang, Kaiqi, Reddy, Abhiram, Prasad, Ishan, Ho, Rong-Ming, Avgeropoulos, Apostolos, Grason, Gregory M., Thomas, Edwin L.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.11.2019; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 639/301/357/341; 639/301/923/1028; Aberration; Analysis; Block copolymers; Humanities and Social Sciences; Molecular crystals; multidisciplinary; Properties; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Structure; United States

Supramolecular soft crystals are periodic structures that are formed by the hierarchical assembly of complex constituents, and occur in a broad variety of ‘soft-matter’ systems 1 . Such soft crystals exhibit many of the basic features (such as three-dimensional lattices and space groups) and propert...