Self-assembly of a space-tessellating structure in the binary system of hard tetrahedra and octahedra
Soft Condensed Matter
2016-09-12 v1
Abstract
We report the formation of a binary crystal of hard polyhedra due solely to entropic forces. Although the alternating arrangement of octahedra and tetrahedra is a known space-tessellation, it had not previously been observed in self-assembly simulations. Both known one-component phases - the dodecagonal quasicrystal of tetrahedra and the densest-packing of octahedra in the Minkowski lattice - are found to coexist with the binary phase. No additional crystalline phases were observed.
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@article{arxiv.1605.07160,
title = {Self-assembly of a space-tessellating structure in the binary system of hard tetrahedra and octahedra},
author = {Andrew T. Cadotte and Julia Dshemuchadse and Pablo F. Damasceno and Richmond S. Newman and Sharon C. Glotzer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.07160},
year = {2016}
}
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6 pages, 3 figures