Mosaic two-lengthscale quasicrystals

T. Dotera (), T. Oshiro and P. Ziherl
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T. Dotera: Kinki University, 3-4-1 Kowakae, Higashi-Osaka 577-8502, Japan
T. Oshiro: Kinki University, 3-4-1 Kowakae, Higashi-Osaka 577-8502, Japan
P. Ziherl: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, Jadranska 19, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

Nature, 2014, vol. 506, issue 7487, 208-211

Abstract: The unusual structures of quasicrystals, such as the 18-fold symmetry observed in polymer micelles, lack the repeating cell pattern of conventional hard crystals; here their origin is shown to be an extension of Penrose tiling with a simple, generic interparticle interaction.

Date: 2014
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