Emergent rhombus tilings from molecular interactions with $M$-fold rotational symmetry
Statistical Mechanics
2015-03-25 v1 Soft Condensed Matter
Abstract
We show that model molecules with particular rotational symmetries can self-assemble into network structures equivalent to rhombus tilings. This assembly happens in an emergent way, in the sense that molecules spontaneously select irregular 4-fold local coordination from a larger set of possible local binding geometries. The existence of such networks can be rationalized by simple geometrical arguments, but the same arguments do not guarantee networks' spontaneous self-assembly. This class of structures must in certain regimes of parameter space be able to reconfigure into networks equivalent to triangular tilings.
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@article{arxiv.1411.3644,
title = {Emergent rhombus tilings from molecular interactions with $M$-fold rotational symmetry},
author = {Stephen Whitelam and Isaac Tamblyn and Juan P. Garrahan and Peter H. Beton},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.3644},
year = {2015}
}