Einstein-Tile Discovered in Nature

From Sabine Hossenfelder.

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Einstein-tiles, discovered in 2023, are shapes that can be used to cover a surface without gaps with a pattern that never repeats. A group of researchers claim they’ve found one of these rare shapes in a group of molecules that spontaneously configured themselves into a surface cover that behaves like an Einstein-tile. Let’s take a look.

Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-55405-5

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