Mucic acid crystals grown from a water-based solution achieved a record-breaking stiffness for an organic crystal.

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Crystals made from mucic acid are the stiffest organic crystals reported to date. 1 They owe their rigidity to a dense web of hydrogen bonding between their molecules, giving them mechanical ...