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Platonic and Archimedean geometries in multicomponent elastic membranes.


ABSTRACT: Large crystalline molecular shells, such as some viruses and fullerenes, buckle spontaneously into icosahedra. Meanwhile multicomponent microscopic shells buckle into various polyhedra, as observed in many organelles. Although elastic theory explains one-component icosahedral faceting, the possibility of buckling into other polyhedra has not been explored. We show here that irregular and regular polyhedra, including some Archimedean and Platonic polyhedra, arise spontaneously in elastic shells formed by more than one component. By formulating a generalized elastic model for inhomogeneous shells, we demonstrate that coassembled shells with two elastic components buckle into polyhedra such as dodecahedra, octahedra, tetrahedra, and hosohedra shells via a mechanism that explains many observations, predicts a new family of polyhedral shells, and provides the principles for designing microcontainers with specific shapes and symmetries for numerous applications in materials and life sciences.

SUBMITTER: Vernizzi G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3060260 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Platonic and Archimedean geometries in multicomponent elastic membranes.

Vernizzi Graziano G   Sknepnek Rastko R   Olvera de la Cruz Monica M  

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20110228 11


Large crystalline molecular shells, such as some viruses and fullerenes, buckle spontaneously into icosahedra. Meanwhile multicomponent microscopic shells buckle into various polyhedra, as observed in many organelles. Although elastic theory explains one-component icosahedral faceting, the possibility of buckling into other polyhedra has not been explored. We show here that irregular and regular polyhedra, including some Archimedean and Platonic polyhedra, arise spontaneously in elastic shells f  ...[more]

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