Aperiodic surface (IMAGE)

Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA)

Aperiodic surface

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Triangles and defects: Due to the chirality – the handedness – of the molecules, the individual triangular tiles never fit together perfectly. Defects and offsets occur, which give the surface its aperiodicity.

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