Dense packings of the Platonic and Archimedean solids

Nature

Volumn 460, Issue 7257, 2009, Pages 876-879

  Torquato, S ^a,b,c   Jiao, Y ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GEOMETRY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLYGON; SYMMETRY;

ARTICLE; CELL SIZE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DENSITY; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID;

EID: 68949093616     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08239     Document Type: Article

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