A molecular overlayer with the Fibonacci square grid structure

Sam Coates; Joseph A. Smerdon; Ronan McGrath; Hem Raj Sharma

doi:10.1038/s41467-018-05950-7

Nature Communications (Aug 2018)

A molecular overlayer with the Fibonacci square grid structure

Sam Coates,
Joseph A. Smerdon,
Ronan McGrath,
Hem Raj Sharma

Affiliations

Sam Coates: Surface Science Research Centre and Department of Physics, University of Liverpool
Joseph A. Smerdon: Jeremiah Horrocks Institute for Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy, University of Central Lancashire
Ronan McGrath: Surface Science Research Centre and Department of Physics, University of Liverpool
Hem Raj Sharma: Surface Science Research Centre and Department of Physics, University of Liverpool

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05950-7
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 5

Abstract

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Quasicrystals possess long range order but no translational symmetry, and rotational symmetries that are forbidden in periodic crystals. Here, a fullerene overlayer deposited on a surface of an icosahedral intermetallic quasicrystal achieves a Fibonacci square grid structure, by selective adsorption at specific sites.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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