Hard tetrahedron model
The hard tetrahedron model. Such a structure has been put forward as a potential model for water[1].
Maximum packing fraction
It has recently been shown that regular tetrahedra are able to achieve packing fractions as high as [2] (the hard sphere packing fraction is [3]). This is in stark contrast to work as recent as in 2006, where it was suggested that the "...regular tetrahedron might even be the convex body having the smallest possible packing density"[4].
Truncated tetrahedra
References
- ↑ Jiri Kolafa and Ivo Nezbeda "The hard tetrahedron fluid: a model for the structure of water?", Molecular Physics 84 pp. 421-434 (1995)
- ↑ Amir Haji-Akbari, Michael Engel, Aaron S. Keys, Xiaoyu Zheng, Rolfe G. Petschek, Peter Palffy-Muhoray and Sharon C. Glotzer "Disordered, quasicrystalline and crystalline phases of densely packed tetrahedra", Nature 462 pp. 773-777 (2009)
- ↑ Neil J. A. Sloane "Kepler's conjecture confirmed", Nature 395 pp. 435-436 (1998)
- ↑ J. H. Conway and S. Torquato "Packing, tiling, and covering with tetrahedra", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 103 10612-10617 (2006)
- ↑ Joost de Graaf, René van Roij, and Marjolein Dijkstra "Dense Regular Packings of Irregular Nonconvex Particles", Physical Review Letters 107 155501 (2011)
- ↑ Yang Jiao and Salvatore Torquato "A packing of truncated tetrahedra that nearly fills all of space and its melting properties", Journal of Chemical Physics 135 151101 (2011)
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