- In geometry, the
Weaire–Phelan
structure is a three-dimensional
structure representing an
idealised foam of equal-sized bubbles, with two
different shapes...
-
Denis Lawrence Weaire FRS (born 17
October 1942 in Dalhousie, Simla, India) is an
Irish physicist and an
emeritus professor of
Trinity College Dublin (TCD)...
- germanides, as well as a few
other compounds such as
gallium palladide. A
Weaire–Phelan
structure has Pm3n (223) symmetry. It has
three orientations of stacked...
-
taking a
hexagonal trapezohedron and
truncating the
polar axis vertices. The
Weaire–Phelan
structure contains another form of this
polyhedron that has D2d symmetry...
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disproved in 1993 by the
discovery of the
Weaire–Phelan structure. The
surprising discovery of the
Weaire–Phelan
structure and
disproof of the Kelvin...
- three-dimensional tessellations, also
called honeycombs.[citation needed] The
Weaire–Phelan
structure is
reported in one
primary philosophical source to be the...
-
honeycomb with very
slightly curved faces. In 1993,
Denis Weaire and
Robert Phelan proposed the
Weaire–Phelan structure,
which uses less
surface area to separate...
- is
based on the
Weaire–Phelan structure, a
structure devised from the
natural pattern of
bubbles in soap lather. In the true
Weaire–Phelan structure...
- pentagons, 2 hexagons)
Includes an
optimal space-filling
shape in
foams (see
Weaire–Phelan structure) and in the
crystal structure of
clathrate hydrate (see...
-
mathematical description of the
structure is
still debated. The computer-generated
Weaire–Phelan
structure is the most recent. In a
reticulated foam only the edges...
