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Nanochemistry: Removing barriers between experiments and simulations

[nature @Nature]

A paper in Nature describes a set of design principles by which colloidal systems can be engineered to exhibit icosahedral quasicrystalline ordering. https://t.co/gMAuJVSvek

[CSIC @CSIC]

Un estudio del #CSIC propone un método para obtener cuasicristales a partir de nanopartículas de ADN.

El trabajo revela que es posible formar cuasicristales icosaédricos, unas estructuras atómicas ordenadas, sin emplear metales.

➡️https://t.co/zLXGwflI57

[OxfordSparks @OxfordSparks]

How to design an icosahedral quasicrystal through directional bonding, by @JonathanDoye

Woah, hang on - what even is a quasicrystal?

Don't worry, all is explained...https://t.co/79dsbZNuvJ

[Jonathan Doye @JonathanDoye]

Eva González Noya (@evagnoya) made the key breakthroughs that made this paper possible. In this blog post, she describes the research journey that eventually led to the discovery of patchy particle systems that can form icosahedral quasicrystals: https://t.co/XEdEcLkg65

[Instituto de Química Física Blas Cabrera @iqf_csic]

The story of how this project was born can be found in the blog Behind the Paper https://t.co/kVKpLxtYia

[Instituto de Química Física Blas Cabrera @iqf_csic]

#IQFRPaper How to design an icosahedral quasicrystal through directional bonding @Nature

Collaboration with @OxfordChemistry

🔗https://t.co/eNxdGWoYOv

[Eva Noya @evagnoya]

You can read the story behind our recent work "How to design an icosahedral quasicrystal through directional bonding" in the blog post: https://t.co/bjiRkckzmn

[Chemistry News @ChemistryNews]

How to design an icosahedral quasicrystal through directional bonding https://t.co/t6tHA3QxL3

[Jonathan Doye @JonathanDoye]

This is a cut through one of the quasicrystals along one of the fivefold axes of symmetry. Notice that all the triacontahedral cluster have the same orientation.

[NanoChemGroup @nanochemgroup]

Today in @Nature publish our article that design of icosahedral quasicrystal by directional bonds between colloidal particles. A collaboration between @OxfordU and @Iqfr @CSIC.
Wonderful paper and congratulations !! @JonathanDoye

https://t.co/fB7RxkDdYE

[Jonathan Doye @JonathanDoye]

The structures typically consist of icosahedral clusters like this rhombic triacontahedron in a matrix of particles that are able to propagate the global icosahedral order.

[Jonathan Doye @JonathanDoye]

The quasiperiodicity is confirmed by the diffraction patterns. This pattern is along one of the five-fold axis of symmetry.

[Jonathan Doye @JonathanDoye]

We've also shown how these structures might be realized using DNA origami particles. Here's an @ox_DNA simulation of an icosahedral cluster of 70 origamis containing about half a million nucleotides:

[Jonathan Doye @JonathanDoye]

Out in @Nature today, our article showing how one can use directional bonding to enable the self-assembly of icosahedral quasicrystals: https://t.co/2JTZQBOX7j

[NanoChemGroup @nanochemgroup]

Los esfingolípidos son unos auténticos bailarines.
Una parte de ellos se encuentran recubriendo nuestras neuronas, en la vaina de mielina.

Quizás sea este el motivo por el que nos gusta tanto la música.... 😜🥳🥳

[NanoChemGroup @nanochemgroup]

El hielo crece más rápido bajo una gota de rocio @NatureComms https://t.co/yBEpZhUhwa @quimicasUCM @ucc_complutense #Cienciaucm @efecto_pez

[NanoChemGroup @nanochemgroup]

Ice growth model of Proffesor Toshio Kuroda @HokkaidoUni had it right: watch premelting film flowing atop the ice surface @NatureComms https://t.co/yBEpZhUhwa

[NanoChemGroup @nanochemgroup]

Ice freezing under a water droplet explained @NatureComms @quimicasUCM https://t.co/xuRHg8oGVU
#premelting #snowflakes

[NanoChemGroup @nanochemgroup]

El crecimiento del hielo en la atmósfera no obedece los mecanismos convencionales de crecimiento cristalino. Más sobre esto en nuestro artículo de Nature Communications https://t.co/yBEpZhUhwa @quimicasUCM @ucc_complutense
@efecto_pez @cienciaes