Forty years of crazy crystals

Sharon C. Glotzer ()

Nature, 2024, vol. 635, issue 8040, 819-820

Abstract: In 1984, scientists made a crystalline alloy that had a seemingly impossible arrangement of atoms. They had discovered the first quasicrystal — a type of material that transformed ideas about how atoms can be ordered in solids.

Keywords: Materials science; Chemistry; Physical chemistry (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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