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Frustrated shapes

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Geometric frustration governs shape selection in fibrous materials.

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Figure 1: Geometric frustration due to curved surfaces and twists.

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  1. Eran Sharon is at the Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel,

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  2. Hillel Aharoni is in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA,

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