Complexity in Surfaces of Densest Packings for Families of Polyhedra

Packings of hard polyhedra have been studied for centuries due to their mathematical aesthetic and more recently for their applications in fields such as nanoscience, granular and colloidal matter, and biology. In all these fields, particle shape is important for structure and properties, especially...

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Main Authors: Elizabeth R. Chen, Daphne Klotsa, Michael Engel, Pablo F. Damasceno, Sharon C. Glotzer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2014-02-01
Series:Physical Review X
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.4.011024