• DOI:10.1126/science.1170827
Corpus ID: 14512017

Natural Quasicrystals

@article{Bindi2009NaturalQ,
  title={Natural Quasicrystals},
  author={L. Bindi and P. Steinhardt and N. Yao and P. Lu},
  journal={Science},
  year={2009},
  volume={324},
  pages={1306 - 1309}
}

L. Bindi, P. Steinhardt, +1 author P. Lu

Published 2009

Medicine

Science

Forbidden Crystals In crystalline materials, a unit cell is replicated in space through a series of rotations, inversions, and reflections. In order to fully fill space, only certain rotational symmetries are allowed. Quasicrystals contain aperiodic tilings of two or more basic shapes that allow these forbidden rotation symmetries. A number of quasicrystalline materials have been synthesized in the lab, including a number of aluminum alloys. Bindi et al. (p. 1306) examined samples of the… CONTINUE READING

View on AAAS

physics.princeton.edu

Save to Library

Create Alert

Cite

Launch Research Feed