Authors
Citation
Yl. Duparcmeur et al., CRYSTALLIZATION OF PENTAGON PACKINGS, Journal of physics. Condensed matter, 7(18), 1995, pp. 3421-3430
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Condensed Matter
Journal title
ISSN journal
09538984
Volume
7
Issue
18
Year of publication
1995
Pages
3421 - 3430
Database
ISI
SICI code
0953-8984(1995)7:18<3421:COPP>2.0.ZU;2-#
Abstract
We present an experiment of densification of a 2D horizontal assembly
made of regular pentagons. The annealing leads to a dense crystalline
arrangement with quasisixfold symmetry in spite of the geometrical cha
racteristics of the grains and of the a priori short-range correlation
length in the packing. This configuration yields the maximum average
number of side to side contacts between the grains and probably the ma
ximum packing fraction.