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Defects accumulate in a single wedge (shown in red) and therefore only affect a few tetrahedral grains of icosahedral clusters.
The visualization shows the simulated cluster (left), particle model (middle) and ball-and-stick model (right).
The introduction of the wedge minimizes the free energy penalty by confining defects to small regions within the cluster.