Aperiodic crystals in biology

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dc.contributor.authorMaciá Barber, Enrique Alfonso
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-22T10:41:40Z
dc.date.available2023-06-22T10:41:40Z
dc.date.issued2022-03-23
dc.description©2022 IOP Publishing Ltd I warmly thank M. Victoria Hernández for a critical reading of the manuscript.
dc.description.abstractBiological systems display a broad palette of hierarchically ordered designs spanning over many orders of magnitude in size. Remarkably enough, periodic order, which profusely shows up in non-living ordered compounds, plays a quite subsidiary role in most biological structures, which can be appropriately described in terms of the more general aperiodic crystal notion instead. In this topical review I shall illustrate this issue by considering several representative examples, including botanical phyllotaxis, the geometry of cell patterns in tissues, the morphology of sea urchins, or the symmetry principles underlying virus architectures. In doing so, we will realize that albeit the currently adopted quasicrystal notion is not general enough to properly account for the rich structural features one usually finds in biological arrangements of matter, several mathematical tools and fundamental notions belonging to the aperiodic crystals science toolkit can provide a useful modeling framework to this end.
dc.description.departmentDepto. de Física de Materiales
dc.description.facultyFac. de Ciencias Físicas
dc.description.refereedTRUE
dc.description.statuspub
dc.eprint.idhttps://eprints.ucm.es/id/eprint/71835
dc.identifier.doi10.1088/1361-648X/ac443d
dc.identifier.issn0953-8984
dc.identifier.officialurlhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1361-648X/ac443d
dc.identifier.relatedurlhttps://iopscience.iop.org/
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/71404
dc.issue.number12
dc.journal.titleJournal of physics-condensed matter
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherIop Publishing Ltd
dc.rightsAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España
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dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/
dc.subject.cdu538.9
dc.subject.keywordBoerdijk-coxeter helix
dc.subject.keywordX-ray-diffraction
dc.subject.keywordMosaic-virus
dc.subject.keywordLight-scattering
dc.subject.keywordQuasi-crystals
dc.subject.keywordPhyllotaxis
dc.subject.keywordPattern
dc.subject.keywordProtein
dc.subject.keywordPhase
dc.subject.keywordCells
dc.subject.keywordAperiodic crystals
dc.subject.keywordQuasicrystals
dc.subject.keywordHierarchical structures
dc.subject.keywordVirus architecture
dc.subject.ucmFísica de materiales
dc.subject.ucmFísica del estado sólido
dc.subject.unesco2211 Física del Estado Sólido
dc.titleAperiodic crystals in biology
dc.typejournal article
dc.volume.number34
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