Predicting How Particles Will Pack Together (2 of 6) (IMAGE)

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Predicting How Particles Will Pack Together (2 of 6)

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Polyhedra spontaneously order into crystals by entropy alone. Here: Gamma-brass crystal structure assembled from truncated dodecahedra. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the July 27, 2012, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Pablo Damasceno at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich., and colleagues was titled, “Predictive Self-Assembly of Polyhedra into Complex Structures.”

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[Image courtesy of Michael Engel, Pablo Damasceno]

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