A tale of two tilings

Sharon C. Glotzer and Aaron S. Keys
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Sharon C. Glotzer: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2136, USA. sglotzer@umich.edu
Aaron S. Keys: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2136, USA. sglotzer@umich.edu

Nature, 2008, vol. 454, issue 7203, 420-421

Abstract: What do you get when you cross a crystal with a quasicrystal? The answer is a structure that links the ancient tiles of Archimedes, the iconic Fibonacci sequence of numbers and a book from the seventeenth century.

Date: 2008
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