Researchers have discovered a reaction path that produces exotic layers with semiregular structures. These kinds of materials are interesting because they frequently possess extraordinary properties.

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 ...

Surface tessellations are an arrangement of shapes which are tightly fitted, and form repeat patterns on a surface without overlapping. Imagine the pattern of a giraffe's fur, the shell of a tortoise ...