Molecules form 2-D patterns never before observed: Nanoscience experiments produce elusive 5-vertex tilings Tessellation patterns that have fascinated mathematicians since Kepler worked out their systematics 400 years ago -- and that more recently have caught the eye of artists and crystallographers -- can now be seen in the laboratory. They first took shape on a surface more perfectly two-dimensional than any sheet of paper, a single layer of atoms and molecules atop an atomically smooth substrate ...
Aug. 8, 2013 - Science Daily
Molecules form 2-D patterns never before observed ( Technische Universitaet Muenchen ) Tessellation patterns that have fascinated mathematicians since Kepler worked out their systematics 400 years ago -- and that more recently have caught the eye of artists and crystallographers -- can now be seen in the laboratory. They first took shape on a surface more perfectly two-dimensional than any sheet of paper, a single layer of atoms and molecules ...
Aug. 8, 2013 - EurekAlert!