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How Many Networks Can Be Made from Four-Coordinate Atoms?
Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|February 12, 2000
Abstract:
In how many ways can three-dimensional space be divided into tiles such that four edges meet at every vertex? A procedure to calculate the number of possibilities was recently presented by the mathematician A. Dress. Some of the tilings correspond to the structures of zeolites and other networks.