In my last post I presented the Waterman-Lintinen Sphere. The sphere is an adaptation of Waterman polyhedra, but applied to the crystallization of (nano)tubules, or short cylinders, into quasi-spheres with a truncated octahedral core. The only issue I had with the model was that I knew it was a simplified version of the true crystallization of lignin nanotubules, lacking certain elements clearly visible in Electron microscopy of the disrupted crystallization of colloidal lign

Today I’m doing something brash. I’m claiming a geometrical shape as my own. The shape in question both is and isn’t a Waterman polyhedron. Or more specifically the notation of a Waterman ‘sphere’ is non-physical and needs to change to be relevant to the crystallization of nanotubules. To begin, I’ll start explaining how a Waterman polyhedron is defined. According to Wikipedia: A Waterman polyhedron is created by packing spheres according to the cubic close(st) packing (CCP

In my previous post I presented the simple theory of the seeding and growth of truncated octahedral Waterman polyhedra. That is, how to make a sphere of spheres, where the core of the structure is a tiny octahedron of spheres, on top of which a second slightly larger octahedron of spheres is deposited, after which the next layers are truncated octahedra of very specific dimension. Like this: However, this model assumes that the structure grows gradually into a dented cubocta