Monday, November 14, 2011

Four face-sharing pentagonal dodecahedra

E. A. Lord, A. Mackay, and S. Ranganathan described in their book, "New geometries for new materials", a simple cluster consisting of four face-sharing pentagonal dodecahedra arranged in a tetrahedral configuration (pp.48). Here is a bead model of this cluster.
In their book, there are more clathrate structures that one might be able to construct with beads.

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