Defects Enhance Stability in 12-fold Symmetric Soft-Matter Quasicrystals.
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DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.134.108201
Abstract: Quasicrystals are materials that exhibit long-range order without translational periodicity. In soft matter, the most commonly observed quasicrystal has 12-fold symmetry and consists of tilings made out of squares and triangles. Intriguingly, both in experiments… read more here.
Keywords: defects enhance; enhance stability; matter; soft matter ... See more keywords