Noalle Fellah, Alex Shtukenberg, and coworkers report in Crystal Growth & Design the structure of a new (fourth) polymorph of benzamide, a simple derivative of benzoic acid and a common intermediate of pharmaceutical compounds. The highly disordered form exhibits a bewildering crystallographic complexity due to 2D stacking faults and organizes like a mismatched stack of building blocks. Link to the article here.
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Earlier Event: February 26
Relating Rheotaxis and Hydrodynamic Actuation using Asymmetric Gold-Platinum Phoretic Rods
Later Event: April 8
Discovery of New Polymorphs of the Tuberculosis Drug Isoniazid