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  2. Penrose tiling - Wikipedia

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    The pattern represented by every finite patch of tiles in a Penrose tiling occurs infinitely many times throughout the tiling. They are quasicrystals: implemented as a physical structure a Penrose tiling will produce diffraction patterns with Bragg peaks and five-fold symmetry, revealing the repeated patterns and fixed orientations of its tiles ...

  3. Quasicrystal - Wikipedia

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    The corresponding diffraction patterns reveal a ten-fold symmetry. [35] Electron diffraction pattern of an icosahedral Ho–Mg–Zn quasicrystal. In 2001, Steinhardt hypothesized that quasicrystals could exist in nature and developed a method of recognition, inviting all the mineralogical collections of the world to identify any badly cataloged ...

  4. Crystallographic restriction theorem - Wikipedia

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    Thus 5-fold rotational symmetry cannot be eliminated by an argument missing either of those assumptions. A Penrose tiling of the whole (infinite) plane can only have exact 5-fold rotational symmetry (of the whole tiling) about a single point, however, whereas the 4-fold and 6-fold lattices have infinitely many centres of rotational symmetry.

  5. Aperiodic tiling - Wikipedia

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    Aperiodic tilings were considered as mathematical artefacts until 1984, when physicist Dan Shechtman announced the discovery of a phase of an aluminium-manganese alloy which produced a sharp diffractogram with an unambiguous fivefold symmetry [5] – so it had to be a crystalline substance with icosahedral symmetry.

  6. Crystal - Wikipedia

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    The symmetry of a crystal is constrained by the requirement that the unit cells stack perfectly with no gaps. There are 219 possible crystal symmetries (230 is commonly cited, but this treats chiral equivalents as separate entities), called crystallographic space groups . [ 9 ]

  7. Fiveling - Wikipedia

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    A fiveling, also known as a decahedral nanoparticle, a multiply-twinned particle (MTP), a pentagonal nanoparticle, a pentatwin, or a five-fold twin is a type of twinned crystal that can exist at sizes ranging from nanometers to millimetres. It contains five different single crystals arranged around a common axis.

  8. Pentagonal tiling - Wikipedia

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    In 2016 it could be shown by Bernhard Klaassen that every discrete rotational symmetry type can be represented by a monohedral pentagonal tiling from the same class of pentagons. [15] Examples for 5-fold and 7-fold symmetry are shown below. Such tilings are possible for any type of n-fold rotational symmetry with n>2.

  9. Point groups in three dimensions - Wikipedia

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    C i (equivalent to S 2) – inversion symmetry; C 2 – 2-fold rotational symmetry; C s (equivalent to C 1h and C 1v) – reflection symmetry, also called bilateral symmetry. Patterns on a cylindrical band illustrating the case n = 6 for each of the 7 infinite families of point groups. The symmetry group of each pattern is the indicated group.