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Rice University

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Rice University researchers have developed a method to predict how crystals take shape from their internal chemistry, even when the crystal lacks symmetry. This representation of a silver nitrate crystal has eight edges, none of which match the others. The Rice team’s algorithm was still able to predict its shape.

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Illustration by Luqing Wang/Rice University

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