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Menger sponge (aluminum) example
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Moltemplate is useful for building larger molecular structures from smaller pieces. The purpose of this example is to show how to build large (many-level) heirarchical objects (a Menger sponge) using moltemplate. A Menger sponge is a fractal composed of subunits that resemble a Rubik's-cubes with a hollow interior. The smallest cube subunits consist of 4 atoms of Aluminum (arranged in a cubic FCC unit-cell for bulk Aluminum).
### Images
<img src="images/AlCell_LR.jpg" width=70> <img src="images/rightarrow.svg" height=80> <img src="images/lvl1_LR.jpg" width=90> <img src="images/rightarrow.svg" height=80> <img src="images/lvl2_LR.jpg" width=130> <img src="images/rightarrow.svg" height=80> <img src="images/lvl3_LR.jpg" width=200>
<img src="images/rightarrow.svg" height=80> <img src="images/menger_sponge_lattice_8cells_t=0_zoom1_LR2.jpg" width=300>
### Video
A short simulation demonstrates that the resulting construct is not stable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfuMBN0OwKc
<img src="images/rightarrow.svg" height=80> <img src="images/menger_sponge_lattice_8cells_t=7400_LR.jpg" width=300>
### Instructions
More detailed instructions on how to build LAMMPS input files and
run a short simulation are provided in other README files.
1) To build the files which LAMMPS needs, follow the instructions in:
[README_setup.sh](README_setup.sh)
2) To run LAMMPS with these files, follow these instructions:
[README_run.sh](README_run.sh)
### Requirements
This example requires the "Al99.eam.alloy" file. (It was not included in this directory because if its large size.) As of 2012-11, I was able to obtain it [here](http://www.ctcms.nist.gov/~cbecker/Download/Al-YM/Al99.eam.alloy). Copy it to the directory containing this README file.
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