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Forced to line up for perfect order

Nature Materials volume 18, pages 1151–1152 (2019)Cite this article

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Physical confinement and magnetic fields are used to align organic molecules that self-assemble into large-size single crystals with perfect positional order.

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Fig. 1: Molecular packing and orientation of discotic shaped organic molecules under different experimental conditions.

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  1. Van ’t Hoff Laboratory for Physical and Colloid Chemistry, Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands

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  2. Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, the Netherlands

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