Forming quasicrystals by monodisperse soft core particles

Mengjie Zu; Peng Tan; Ning Xu

doi:10.1038/s41467-017-02316-3

Nature Communications (Dec 2017)

Forming quasicrystals by monodisperse soft core particles

Mengjie Zu,
Peng Tan,
Ning Xu

Affiliations

Mengjie Zu: CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, and Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology of China
Peng Tan: State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics and Department of Physics, Fudan University
Ning Xu: CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, and Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology of China

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02316-3
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Quasicrystals with structural symmetries forbidden in crystals have been found in alloys or mono-component systems composed of anisotropic units. Zu et al. show a formation of two-dimensional quasicrystals in an isotropic soft solid with a spring-like potential, which challenges the existing theory.

Published in Nature Communications

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