Chiral Quasicrystalline Order and Dodecahedral Geometry in Exceptional Families of Viruses

Details Chiral Quasicrystalline Order and Dodecahedral Geometry in Exceptional Families of Viruses Chiral Quasicrystalline Order and Dodecahedral Geometry in Exceptional Families of Viruses

2011-05-17

arxiv.org/abs/1105.3337v2

Physics

Biological Physics

8 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.038102

On the example of exceptional families of viruses we i) show the existence of a completely new type of matter organization in nanoparticles, in which the regions with a chiral pentagonal quasicrystalline order of protein positions are arranged in a structure commensurate with the spherical topology and dodecahedral geometry, ii) generalize the classical theory of quasicrystals (QCs) to explain this organization, and iii) establish the relation between local chiral QC order and nonzero curvature of the dodecahedral capsid faces.

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