A pentagonal cluster in certain approximants to decagonal quasicrystals.
A certain pentagonal cluster occurring in several approximants to the decagonal quasicrystal is discussed. The term 'cluster' is used here to denote a structure motif which is a certain assemblage of coordination polyhedra. The cluster resembles a wheel with an 'axis' and a 'tyre'. It is built up of seven intergrown icosahedra. The 'wheel cluster' builds up structures of infinite strands or nets perpendicular to the pentagonal wheel cluster axis. The wheel cluster is the main constituent of the decagonal approximant structure types Al3Mn, Al60Mn11Ni4 and Ga137Mn123.
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Structural Chemistry, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden. magnusb@struc.su.se
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