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SCIENCE
Volume 322, Issue 5904, Pages 1077-1081Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1163338
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- EPSRC [EP/D048761/01, GR/S54074/01]
- Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award
- EPSRC [EP/D048761/1, EP/E04882X/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/D048761/1, EP/E04882X/1, GR/S54074/01] Funding Source: researchfish
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A molecular network that exhibits critical correlations in the spatial order that is characteristic of a random, entropically stabilized, rhombus tiling is described. Specifically, we report a random tiling formed in a two- dimensional molecular network of p-terphenyl-3,5,3 ',5 '-tetracarboxylic acid adsorbed on graphite. The network is stabilized by hexagonal junctions of three, four, five, or six molecules and may be mapped onto a rhombus tiling in which an ordered array of vertices is embedded within a nonperiodic framework with spatial fluctuations in a local order characteristic of an entropically stabilized phase. We identified a topological defect that can propagate through the network, giving rise to a local reordering of molecular tiles and thus to transitions between quasi- degenerate local minima of a complex energy landscape. We draw parallels between the molecular tiling and dynamically arrested systems, such as glasses.
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