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Icosahedral quasicrystals

Assembled with one component

Computer simulations of one-component three-dimensional icosahedral quasicrystals will help to understand the mechanisms that may stabilize them in experiments.

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Figure 1: Patterns in icosahedral quasicrystals.

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de Boissieu, M. Assembled with one component. Nature Mater 14, 18–19 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat4183

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