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DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.038102
WoS: 000299329100030
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On the example of exceptional families of viruses we (i) show the existence of a completely new type of matter organization in nanoparticles, in which the regions with a chiral pentagonal quasicrystalline order of protein positions are arranged in a structure commensurate with the spherical topology and dodecahedral geometry, (ii) generalize the classical theory of quasicrystals (QCs) to explain this organization, and (iii) establish the relation between local chiral QC order and nonzero curvature of the dodecahedral capsid faces.