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Simple tilings by polyhedra with five- and six-sided faces
Olaf Delgado-Friedrichs1, Michael O'Keeffe
1Supercomputer Facility, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia.
Abstract:
Thirteen tilings of space by simple polyhedra with five- and six-sided faces ('fullerenes') are reported in which there are up to 11 kinds of vertex (vertex 11-transitive). All tilings contain dodecahedra and one or more of nine other kinds of tile. The duals are tilings by tetrahedra and include the four simplest of the known Frank-Kasper intermetallic structure phases. A fifth structure involving just the Frank-Kasper coordination polyhedra has a higher average coordination number than any known or postulated Frank-Kasper phase.
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