The building uses traditional Chinese window-lattices up its high-rise facade, and is topped with a tiled pagoda-like roof.

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In one way or another, atoms of different elements are brought close together to form their crystalline lattices.

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They use phononic lattices arrays of bumps and dimples embossed on a substrate to alter the way in which SAWs reverberate.

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Since the electrical properties of solids depend on their crystal structures, his group is experimenting with new atomic lattices.

ECONOMIST: Thermoelectrics

Decorative art in almost every human culture includes precisely repeated patterns such as stripes, checks, stars, lattices and knots.

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Certain materials that can be made to adhere to surfaces in regular lattices could be used to maximise the reflective properties of road signs at night.

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He considered at one time going into politics (and he spent two years in Washington working for the government), but it was the theoretical lattices of economics that claimed him.

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