Issue 34, 2016

Self-assembly of a space-tessellating structure in the binary system of hard tetrahedra and octahedra

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. Apart from an alternative, monoclinic packing of octahedra, no additional crystalline phases were observed.

Graphical abstract: Self-assembly of a space-tessellating structure in the binary system of hard tetrahedra and octahedra

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Article type
Paper
Submitted
23 May 2016
Accepted
01 Jul 2016
First published
01 Jul 2016

Soft Matter, 2016,12, 7073-7078

Self-assembly of a space-tessellating structure in the binary system of hard tetrahedra and octahedra

A. T. Cadotte, J. Dshemuchadse, P. F. Damasceno, R. S. Newman and S. C. Glotzer, Soft Matter, 2016, 12, 7073 DOI: 10.1039/C6SM01180B

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