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Structure and energetics of grain boundaries in self-assembled double-gyroid block copolymer networks
Jing Chen, Aiping Zhu, Dan Wei +2
Grain boundaries (GBs) are ubiquitous defects in crystalline materials. However, they remain less explored in block copolymer ordered phases. Here, we develop a self-consistent fie…
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Phason-Driven Diversity of Nucleation Pathways in Icosahedral Quasicrystals
Gang Cui, Lei Zhang, Pingwen Zhang +2
The nucleation of quasicrystals remains a fundamental puzzle, primarily due to the absence of a periodic translational template. Here, we demonstrate that phasons - hidden degrees…