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A crystallographic mismatch branching mechanism, rather than molecular self-assembly, controls the architecture of the crystalline structure. Self-organized functional materials with a 3D fibrous network structure (see scanning electron micrographs; right) have been constructed from needlelike crystals of lanosterol:dihydrolanosterol and diisooctylphthalate (left) by using an ethylene/vinyl acetate copolymer as a branching creator.
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