crystals. The crystals, formed by beads self-assembled on water droplets in oil, serve as
model systems for exploring very general theories about the minimum-energy configurations
of particles with arbitrary repulsive interactions on curved surfaces. Above a critical system
size we find that crystals develop distinctive high-angle grain boundaries, or scars, not found
in planar crystals. The number of excess defects in a scar is shown to grow linearly with the …