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Entropically stabilized growth of a two-dimensional random tiling.

Andrew Stannard1, Matthew O Blunt, Peter H Beton

  • 1School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, United Kingdom.

Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
|January 15, 2011
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Researchers studied molecular rhombus tiling growth, finding a shift from energetic to entropic stabilization. This reveals how molecular networks form equilibrium or non-equilibrium structures during initial growth.

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