Vacancy defects in square-triangle tilings and their implications for quasicrystals formed by square-shoulder particles

Alptuğ Ulugöl, Giovanni Del Monte, Eline K. Kempkes +2

Almost all observed square-triangle quasicrystals in soft-matter systems contain a large number of point-like defects, yet the role these defects play in stabilizing the quasicryst…