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Disclinations

They are defects in warped or twisted materials. Unlike a related defect, the dislocation, they do not appear in ordinary crystals, but they abound in thin periodic structures such as virus shells

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 237 Issue 6This article was originally published with the title “Disclinations” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 237 No. 6 (), p. 130
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1277-130