When embedded in a nematic liquid crystal, we found that truncated pyramid-like particles with a pentagonal shape self-organized into quasicrystalline structures. Through the NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program, I worked in Ivan Smalyukh's Soft Matter Physics Group at the University of Colorado at Boulder, utilizing holographic optical tweezers and confocal microscopy to assemble and image quasicrystals.

You can read more about our work here:

B. Senyuk, Q. Liu, E. S. Bililign, P. D. Nystrom, I. I. Smalyukh. Geometry-guided colloidal interactions and self-tiling of elastic dipoles formed by truncated pyramid particles in liquid crystals, Physical Review E 91 (2015).