Stressed Fibonacci spiral patterns of definite chirality

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 16, 2007, Pages

  Li, Chaorong ^a,b   Ji, Ailing ^b   Cao, Zexian ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG SCI TECH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY; MICROSTRUCTURE; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; SILICA;

FIBONACCI SPIRALS; PHYLLOTACTIC PATTERNS; SPIRAL PATTERNS; TESSELLATIONS;

STRESS ANALYSIS;

EID: 34247384005     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2728578     Document Type: Article

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