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How Many Networks Can Be Made from Four‐Coordinate Atoms?
Author(s) -
Müller Ulrich
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1521-3773(20000204)39:3<502::aid-anie502>3.0.co;2-n
Subject(s) - vertex (graph theory) , space (punctuation) , combinatorics , computer science , mathematics , graph , operating system
In how many ways can three‐dimensional space be divided into tiles such that four edges meet at every vertex? A procedure to calculate the number of possibilities was recently presented by the mathematician A. Dress. Some of the tilings correspond to the structures of zeolites and other networks.