Disordered, quasicrystalline and crystalline phases of densely packed tetrahedra

Nature

Volumn 462, Issue 7274, 2009, Pages 773-777

  Haji Akbari, Amir ^a   Engel, Michael ^a   Keys, Aaron S ^a   Zheng, Xiaoyu ^b   Petschek, Rolfe G ^c   Palffy Muhoray, Peter ^b   Glotzer, Sharon C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; DENSITY; ENTROPY; ENVISAT-1; GEOMETRY; LATTICE DYNAMICS; PARTICLE SIZE; SPHERE;

ARTICLE; COMPRESSION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; DENSITY; ENTROPY; GEOMETRY; LIQUID; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARTICLE SIZE; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TETRAHEDRA; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 72049096936     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08641     Document Type: Article

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