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  • Soft building blocks tend to be near spherical, limiting their packing structures to those found in metallic systems. Here the authors report the spontaneous generation of highly deformed mesoatoms using molecular pentagons and observe Frank–Kasper phases not found in metal alloys.

    • Xian-You Liu
    • Xiao-Yun Yan
    • Stephen Z. D. Cheng
    Research
    Nature Materials
    Volume: 23, P: 570-576

  • Growth of colloidal semiconductor quantum dots involves several stages, including an enigmatic induction period preceding nucleation. Here, the authors identify two distinct intermediates in the induction period, mapping their evolution from precursors all the way to either magic-size clusters or quantum dots.

    • Mingyang Liu
    • Kun Wang
    • Kui Yu
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 8, P: 1-12

  • Ordered self-assembly is a promising way to realize collective properties in nanocrystals, but reliable routes to such macroscopic structures are missing. Here the authors make cm-scale ordered superlattice films from gold nanoclusters, correlating film properties with the shape of the building blocks

    • Jianxiao Gong
    • Richmond S. Newman
    • Zhiyong Tang
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 8, P: 1-9