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Copper nanomaterials with a cubic shape so perfect that they form neatly aligned stacks when brought together have been created by researchers at KAUST. The cuboid copper nanoclusters, developed by rational design, are a new member of an exotic nanomaterial family that has shown many promising properties but has remained very hard to make. Copper nanomaterials are a class of materials that exhibit useful properties for the fields of photoluminescence and catalysis, says Ren-Wu Huang, a postdoc in Osman Bakr s lab, who led the research. There is great interest in synthesizing new copper nanomaterials to understand how their structure influences their function.