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A bacterium has evolved an enzyme that assembles in a fractal structure, a mathematical pattern that repeats itself at smaller scales. Fractal patterns are found throughout nature on large, ...

Triangles and defects: Due to the chirality – the handedness – of the molecules, the individual triangular tiles never fit together perfectly. Defects and offsets occur, which give the surface its ...