2D honeycomb transformation into dodecagonal quasicrystals driven by electrostatic forces

Quasicrystals are perfectly ordered crystals lacking translational symmetry. Here the authors unravel the formation mechanism of two-dimensional dodecagonal quasicrystals that arise from systematic modifications of a hexagonal honeycomb structure.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Sebastian Schenk, Oliver Krahn, Eric Cockayne, Holger L. Meyerheim, Marc de Boissieu, Stefan Förster, Wolf Widdra
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-12-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35308-z