Energetically favoured defects in dense packings of particles on spherical surfaces

The dense packing of interacting particles on spheres has proved to be a useful model for virus capsids and colloidosomes. Indeed, icosahedral symmetry observed in virus capsids corresponds to potential energy minima that occur for magic numbers of, e.g., 12, 32 and 72 identical Lennard-Jones partic...

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Veröffentlicht in:	arXiv.org 2017-02
Hauptverfasser:	Paquay, Stefan, Halim Kusumaatmaja, Wales, David J, Zandi, Roya, van der Schoot, Paul
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Icosahedral phase Lennard-Jones potential Minima Optimization Physics - Soft Condensed Matter Point defects Potential energy Proteins Variations Viruses
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