Solid-state physics: How does your quasicrystal grow?

Paul J. Steinhardt

doi:10.1038/452043a

Solid-state physics: How does your quasicrystal grow?

Paul J. Steinhardt

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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?

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	43-44
Number of pages	2
Journal	Nature
Volume	452
Issue number	7183
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/452043a
State	Published - Mar 6 2008

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