Chiral Quasicrystalline Order and Dodecahedral Geometry in Exceptional Families of Viruses

Autor:	Konevtsova, O. V., Rochal, S. B., Lorman, V. L.
Rok vydání:	2011
Předmět:	Physics - Biological Physics Quantitative Biology - Subcellular Processes
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
DOI:	10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.038102
Popis:	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. Comment: 8 pages, 3 figures
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/1105.3337 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv