ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021
Entropic formation of a thermodynamically stable colloidal quasicrystal with negligible phason strain.
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- Rapid and high-quality formation of dodecagonal quasicrystals and their approximants using a purely mechanical approach.National science review · 2026Article
- Hierarchical ground-state crystals underlying Hertzian quasicrystals.Nature communications · 2025Article
- A One-Component Patchy-Particle Icosahedral Quasicrystal.ACS nano · 2025Article
- Ultrahigh concentration exfoliation and aqueous dispersion of few-layer graphene by excluded volume effect.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Colloidal quasicrystals engineered with DNA.Nature materials · 2024Article
- Quantum fluctuations drive nonmonotonic correlations in a qubit lattice.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Design of Linear Block Copolymers andMacromolecules · 2023Article
- Entropically engineered formation of fivefold and icosahedral twinned clusters of colloidal shapes.Nature communications · 2022Article
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Abstract
Quasicrystals have been discovered in a variety of materials ranging from metals to polymers. Yet, why and how they form is incompletely understood. In situ transmission electron microscopy of alloy quasicrystal formation in metals suggests an error-and-repair mechanism, whereby quasiperiodic crystals grow imperfectly with phason strain present, and only perfect themselves later into a high-quality quasicrystal with negligible phason strain. The growth mechanism has not been investigated for other types of quasicrystals, such as dendrimeric, polymeric, or colloidal quasicrystals. Soft-matter quasicrystals typically result from entropic, rather than energetic, interactions, and are not usually grown (either in laboratories or
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