[Chase]’s crystal-growing efforts have shown up here before, when he turned humble table salt into beautiful cubic crystals. We find the whole crystal-growing process fascinating, and we’re ...

Polishing the crystals to make them optically cleaner would be a good next step, as would perhaps growing even larger crystals.

Replacing organic solvents with molten salt enables researchers to create “previously unimaginable nanocrystals.” The type of ...