Why are dice cubes? Okay, nerds, yes, some are tetrahedra, or dodecahedra, or icosahedra, or whatever else your TTRPG calls for – but the point is, they’re all regular, symmetrical, perfectly ...

The first natural-occurring quasicrystal, icosahedrite, was recently discovered in the Khatyrka meteorite, a new CV3 carbonaceous chondrite. Its finding raised fundamental questions regarding the ...

By means of self-assembly, these dimers and trimers are then supposed to produce highly symmetrical structures such as icosahedra or octahedra.

The development of bimetallic nanomaterials with precisely controlled size, shape, and composition has emerged as a cornerstone of sustainable catalysis, offering innovative solutions for chemical ...

This study not only fills the gap of icosahedral superatomic silver nanoclusters, but more importantly, constructs a new pair of metal nanocluster analogs that can study the optical properties of ...

The purpose of this study is to examine the microstructural properties of Ni pure metallic glass and to uncover how the system reacts when subjected to mechanical pressure during tensile testing.

Cryo–electron microscopy structures of the designed disk-shaped nanopores and ultracompact icosahedra are very close to the computational models,” they commented.

And if you rolled a pair of tetrahedra and a pair of icosahedra, the most likely sum was 5 plus 21, or 26. Why did this work?

We found that the majority of pentagonal bipyramids form a network, instead of assembling into icosahedra in the amorphous materials. Substances that are arranged into crystals are very well ...

Crystals don’t manifest as icosahedra on a micro-scale, and, for a couple of centuries, consensus among theorists was that all matter was either glassy or crystalline.

A group of MIT undergraduates is searching for tetrahedra that tile space, the latest effort in a millennia-long inquiry. They’ve already made a new discovery.