Felix Flicker
and Amir Amin

Felix Flicker

Quasicrystal

Digital print

The atoms in materials called 'quasicrystals' are arranged aperiodically. This image shows a path visiting every atom within a small region on the surface of a certain quasicrystal. It forms a complex maze. Try to escape from the centre!

By following this maze, bendy molecules could pack perfectly onto the surfaces of certain quasicrystals. This suggests quasicrystals could be useful in industrial processes such as catalysis.

Felix Flicker and Amir Amin

Platonic Solids
Laser cut acrylic covered with two way mirrored film, 3D Printed PLA corner pieces, LEDs, wire, bolts

The platonic solids are polyhedra whose faces are identical regular polygons. Looking into the reflections reveals how each shape stacks.

The tetrahedron (4 faces), cube (6 faces), and octahedron (8 faces) have periodic images. These describe the arrangements of atoms in certain crystals. The dodecahedron (12 faces) and icosahedron (20 faces) create aperiodic images. They describe the arrangements of atoms in quasicrystals.

Amir Amin is a recent engineering graduate from the University of Bristol. He is currently working in the university's Hackspace.

Felix Flicker is a senior lecturer in physics at the University of Bristol. He researches quantum materials.

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