Polar Supertextures_1600x900_WEB (IMAGE)

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Polar Supertextures_1600x900_WEB

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Illustration of the material’s transition, with time represented from left to right. A laser pulse (left) sends the material into disorder (middle). Out of this so-called soup phase emerges a highly ordered phase called a supercrystal (right).

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(Image by Argonne National Laboratory.)

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