Jung-Shen B Tai et al.
Science (New York, N.Y.), 365(6460), 1449-1453 (2019-10-12)
Starting with Gauss and Kelvin, knots in fields were postulated to behave like particles, but experimentally they were found only as transient features or required complex boundary conditions to exist and could not self-assemble into three-dimensional crystals. We introduce energetically