Quasicrystals (image)

Cornell University

Caption

A transmission electron microscope image of a mesoporous silica nanoparticle, showing the tiling with triangles and squares, and the Fourier analysis (inset) showing 12-fold symmetry.

Credit

Lab of Uli Wiesner, Cornell University

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