It can be described by an archimedean-like tiling 8, 9 consisting of alternating rows of square and triangular tiles. The calculated diffraction pattern of this phase is in agreement with recent ...

It’s a bit too small to cover the floor of the laboratory, but chemists in Europe have used self-assembling molecules to create a nanoscale version of an Archimedean tiling pattern. Archimedean ...

Tiles for kitchens and bathrooms are usually square or rectangular. There is a good reason for this: anyone trying to tile a bathroom with five-sided tiles will not be able to cover the wall without ...

Jules Mikhael and his colleagues didn’t set out to make a material with a structure that had never been seen before, much less one that combines order and irregularity in a whole new way, one that ...