Molecular Design Institute graduate students Fangyuan Dong, Mingzhu Liu and Veronica Grebe reported in Chemistry of Materials nineteen uniquely shaped anisotropic colloids that form ordered crystals under dielectrophoretic fields. The various particle shapes resulted in crystalline phases with p6m, cmm or p2 plane group symmetries, two plastic phases, and a disordered phase. The observations establish a relationship between particle shape and the resulting 2D structures, providing guidance for the design of 2D colloidal crystals. Link to the article here.