Researchers explored a colloidal crystal model to produce specific polymorphs, required for use in materials science and pharmaceuticals. Polymorphs are not mythical, chimeric beasts -- they are ...
Most materials are capable of crystallizing in various forms called polymorphs, which vary in the 3D arrangement of molecules or atoms in the crystal lattice. Polymorphs have similar chemical ...
(a) Microscopic image and schematic representation of crystal polymorphs obtained via heteroepitaxial growth (α-phase: green; β-phase: red). Polystyrene particles with a diameter of 860 nm were used ...