Exotic Quasicrystal Structures May Be More Normal Than Assumed
Wednesday, October 14, 2009 - 16:49
in Physics & Chemistry
Quasicrystals are a relative newcomer to the field of materials science, having been discovered just 25 years ago. Nudging their way between amorphous solids such as glass and crystals such as quartz, the structures exhibit an ordered structure like crystals do, but their uniqueness lies in the fact that the ordered arrangement does not repeat--that is to say, it is not periodic. [More]