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Scars on a colloidal crystal ball

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Colloidal crystals assembled on the surface of a spherical water droplet contain 'scars', a macroscopic equivalent of conventional grain boundaries. Direct observation of these grain-boundary scars provides a new way of studying dislocation dynamics

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Figure 1: A spherical colloidal crystal (not to scale).
Figure 2: Defect dynamics in 2D crystals.

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