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A soft crystalline packing with no metallic analogue

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Pentagonal polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS)-based giant atoms self-assemble into Frank–Kasper phases that have not been previously observed in soft-matter systems.

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Fig. 1: Representations of different ordered states for soft, quasi-spherical micelles.
Fig. 2: Evaluation of the μ phase and ɸ phase for diblock copolymer melts.

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