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SUBMITTER: Shen H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6465257 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Shen Hongchuan H Tong Hua H Tan Peng P Tan Peng P Xu Lei L
Nature communications 20190415 1
Using polygonal magnetic particles, we conduct experiments to explore the space-filling properties of anisotropic blocks with long-range interactions. In contrast to previous studies, we obtain the surprising finding that our systems' structures do not depend on the shape of building blocks: a single state, the hexagonal plastic crystal, appears as a universal attractor for a wide range of different polygons. This robust particle-shape independency appears as the interactions go beyond nearest n ...[more]