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Soft matter and liquids

Brownian motion melts a quasicrystal of tiny Penrose tiles

04 Sep 2018
Penrose quasicrystal
Moving pictures: microscope image of a quasicrystal two days after release. The right half has been colour coded. (Courtesy: Po-Yuan Wang and Thomas Mason/Nature)
A quasicrystal made from tiny Penrose tiles that undergo Brownian motion has been created by Po-Yuan

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