Nature Physics Research Highlight: Know your onions

Pierre-Philippe Dechant

doi:doi:10.1038/nphys2949

Nature Physics Research Highlight: Know your onions

Pierre-Philippe Dechant

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	244
Number of pages	1
Journal	Nature Physics
Volume	10
Issue number	244
DOIs	https://doi.org/doi:10.1038/nphys2949
Publication status	Published - 1 Apr 2014

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