Platonic and Archimedean geometries in multicomponent elastic membranes
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Platonic and Archimedean geometries in multicomponent elastic membranes.
Large crystalline molecular shells, such as some viruses and fullerenes, buckle spontaneously into icosahedra. Meanwhile multicomponent microscopic shells buckle into various polyhedra, as observed in many organelles. Although elastic theory explains one-component icosahedral faceting, the possibility of buckling into other polyhedra has not been explored. We show here that irregular and regula...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1012872108