Nonequilibrium Navigation of a Rugged Energy Landscape Enables the Formation of Face-On Single-Domain Dodecagonal Quasicrystals
Metastable intermediates play an important role in directing structural evolution across complex energy landscapes. Here, we establish the dodecagonal quasicrystal (DDQC) as a tunable metastable kinetic junction in a single-component carboxyl-functionalized dendritic assembly. Time-resolved small-angle X-ray scatteri...