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doi:10.1038/nphys2949

Author(s)

Pierre-Philippe Dechant

Department/unit(s)

Mathematics

Publication details

Journal	Nature Physics
Date	Published - 1 Apr 2014
Issue number	244
Volume	10
Number of pages	1
Pages (from-to)	244
Original language	English

Abstract

Many viruses have icosahedral symmetry. So do certain 'carbon onions' — Russian doll-like arrangements of nested fullerenes. Pierre-Philippe Dechant and colleagues argue that viruses and carbon onions share the same formation principle: affine symmetry.

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