Flexible Decagons (IMAGE)

Brown University

Flexible Decagons

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Researchers from Brown University have shown that a particular type of nanoparticle building blocks can assemble themselves into a quasicrystalline superlattice. The researchers showed that the particles form decagons (10-sided polygons), which them stitch together to form a lattice. The researchers showed that in order to fill in space in the lattice, the decagons flex into with polygons with five-nine sides.

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Chen Lab / Brown University

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