@article {837081, title = {Sonication-assisted synthesis of large, high-quality mercury-thiolate single crystals directly from liquid mercury}, journal = {J. Am. Chem. Soc,}, volume = {132}, year = {2010}, note = {We thank O. Paris, S. Siegel, and C. Li for their help during synchrotron diffraction experiments (BESSY II, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, Germany). Some of the supporting powder diffraction measurements were performed at the 11BM beamline of the APS. This work was partially supported by the MRSEC program of the NSF under award DMR-0820-48 and partially by the B. and G. Greenberg (Ottawa) research fund (via the Technion). B.P. is currently a Horev Fellow in the framework of the Leaders in Science Program at the Israel Institute of Technology.}, pages = {14355{\textendash}14357}, doi = {10.1021/ja1056449}, author = {B. Pokroy and B. Aichmayer and A. S. Schenk and B. Haimov and S. H. Kang and P. Fratzl and Aizenberg, J.} }