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Pentagonal bifrustum

Convex polyhedron


Convex polyhedron

FieldValue
namePentagonal Bifrustum
imageDual elongated pentagonal dipyramid.png
caption
typeBifrustum
euler
faces10 trapezoids
2 pentagons
edges25
vertices15
vertex_config
schläfli
wythoff
conway
coxeter
symmetry*D*5h
rotation_group
surface_area
volume
angle
dualElongated pentagonal dipyramid
propertiesConvex
vertex_figure
netDual elongated pentagonal dipyramid net.png
net_caption

2 pentagons

In geometry, the pentagonal bifrustum or truncated pentagonal bipyramid is the third in an infinite series of bifrustum polyhedra. It has 10 trapezoidal and 2 pentagonal faces.

Constructions

The pentagonal bifrustum is the dual polyhedron of a Johnson solid, the elongated pentagonal bipyramid.

This polyhedron can be constructed by taking a pentagonal bipyramid and truncating the polar axis vertices. In Conway polyhedron notation, it can be represented as the polyhedron "t5dP5", meaning the truncation of the degree-five vertices of the dual of a pentagonal prism.

Alternatively, it can be constructed by gluing together two end-to-end pentagonal frustums, or (if coplanar faces are allowed) by gluing together two pentagonal prisms on their pentagonal faces.

Application

In nanoparticles, a 15-site truncated pentagonal bipyramid structure may form the nucleus of larger twinned structures with five-fold or icosahedral symmetry.

References

References

  1. [http://www.georgehart.com/virtual-polyhedra/conway_notation.html Conway Notation for Polyhedra], [[George W. Hart]], accessed 2014-12-20.
  2. Hofmeister, Herbert. (1999). "Fivefold twinning in nanosized particles and nanocrystalline thin films – ubiquitous metastable structures". Materials Science Forum.
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