What do you get when you cross a crystal with a quasicrystal? The answer is a structure that links the ancient tiles of Archimedes, the iconic Fibonacci sequence of numbers and a book from the seventeenth century.
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Glotzer, S., Keys, A. A tale of two tilings. Nature 454, 420–421 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/454420a
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