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SUBMITTER: Vernizzi G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3060260 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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]