Soft version of the truncated octahedron, a space-filling polyhedron. This soft cell fills space without gaps but has no sharp corners. The faces are minimal surfaces, represented by soap films.

He is impressed that the team managed to create the truncated octahedron as it can be tough to predict the shape of such a structure ahead of time. Journal reference: Science, DOI: 10.1126/science ...

Here, the authors show that an amphiphilic foldamer can adopt a hollow truncated octahedron crystal structure comprising of 48 individual foldamer units.

Edge skeleton of the soft version of the truncated octahedron, a space-filling polyhedron. This soft cell fills space without gaps but has no sharp corners. The faces (not shown) are minimal ...