Self-assembling metal-organic coordinated fractal crystals
Fractals are essentially characterized by their self-similarity at different scales and non-integer Hausdorff dimensions ”1”, while crystals always show certain symmetries and discrete diffraction diagrams ”2”.Thus, a fractal crystal by definition must be identical at all scales with a compatible symmetry with crystals.Although fractals, e.g.snowflakes, trees, coastlines and blood-vascular systems,are everywhere in nature, irregular molecular fractals that form through the diffusion-limited aggregation process ”3” and exhibitquasi or statistical self-similarity are not fractal crystal.
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2015-11-18(万方平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)
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