Written by Stephen McCarthy for Chemistry World
Computer models that show how organic molecules could assemble into molecular quasicrystals may open the door to new materials with exotic properties.
Imitating the famous mathematical patterns known as Penrose tilings, Dimitri Laikov of Moscow State University in Russia, designed two complementary molecular ‘tiles’ and modelled their supramolecular interactions. The resulting assembly shows the aperiodicity and five-fold rotational symmetry characteristic of quasicrystals – the first time that a complex with this property has been predicted
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