Chemists identify a single molecule that naturally tiles in nonrepeating patterns, which could help build materials with novel electronic properties.

More information: Jan Voigt et al, An aperiodic chiral tiling by topological molecular self-assembly, Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-55405-5 ...

Such a “proto-tile” was first discovered in 2022 by ... Even more surprising: Each time he repeated the experiment, different aperiodic patterns emerged. Like all good researchers, Ernst ...