Dodecahedron stacks

Very recently the crystallization of non-spherical nanoparticles into ordered arrangements has been observed that had not been seen with spherical particles. Thanks to the high density of DNA on the particle solid faces, hexagonal packing of nanorods, and columnar stacking of nanoprisms, fee crystals of rhombic dodecahedrons were observed in [152] (see Fig. 35). 

We repeated the above survey starting from the other three minima in Figure 1.34. In each case we obtained disconnectivity graphs with similar features (not shown). The box-kite and stacked pentagonal prism minima are the lowest points on their respective graphs, but the dodecahedron is not because lower minima are immediately located. 

Figure 1 An octahedron and a rhombic dodecahedron, two crystal habits built up by periodically stacking cubelets representing a cubic unit cell. (After Ref. 1.)...

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