Scientists witness nature's complexity unfold in self-assembling quasicrystals
Saturday, October 31, 2009 - 12:49
in Physics & Chemistry
(PhysOrg.com) -- Just a few decades ago, scientists believed that all ordered matter consists of self-repeating building blocks -- atoms, ions or molecules. In this view, the ordinary solids of everyday life are arranged in crystals of repeating, three -- dimensional patterns.