How does your quasicrystal grow?

Paul J. Steinhardt
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Paul J. Steinhardt: Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544-0708, USA. steinh@princeton.edu

Nature, 2008, vol. 452, issue 7183, 43-44

Abstract: Somewhere between the amorphous glasses and the rigidly regimented periodic crystals lie the quasicrystals: ordered, predictable, yet non-periodic arrangements of atoms. How do these strange structures form?

Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1038/452043a

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