The currently unnamed quasicrystal was found inside a sample of fulgurite formed from sand and metal from a downed powerline heated to at least 1,710°C (3,110°F).

Superconductivity in an alloy with quasicrystal structure. Nagoya University. Journal Nature Communications Funder Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, Japan Society for the Promotion of ...

The quasicrystal has equally-spaced atomic layers, each with a 12-fold rotational symmetry – something that is impossible in ordinary crystals with translational symmetry. Read more. Quasicrystalline ...

Eighty years ago today, at 5:29 am on the morning of 16 July 1945, in the state of New Mexico, a dreadful slice of history ...

Another quasicrystal has now been discovered by scientists analyzing this meteorite. However, unlike the first two — which were created in a lab before they were discovered in nature — this ...

We study the dynamics of phasons in a nonlinear photonic quasicrystal. The photonic quasicrystal is formed by optical induction, and its dynamics is initiated by allowing the light waves inducing ...

“However, at 15% aluminium, the alloy transformed into a quasicrystal, and the critical temperature plummeted to about 0.05 K,” says Kamiya. Dramatic jump. At 0.05 K, the specific heat of the ...

Another “impossible” crystal has been found locked inside a Russian meteorite. The specimen is a quasicrystal, a type of material that shatters the rules of crystallography by having an ...

The story includes secret diaries, smuggling and the discovery that nature’s quasicrystal seems to come from a meteorite some 4.5 billion years old: far from an artificial innovation, the ...

Quasicrystal materials were first discovered in the 1980s by the chemist Dan Shechtman, who in 2011 was awarded the Nobel Prize for the discovery. Unlike crystals, ...

The first quasicrystal of any sort was also accidentally made in the lab, in 1982, by materials scientist Daniel Schechtman who won a Nobel Prize for the discovery in 2011. Up until that point ...

Second natural quasicrystal ever found in ancient meteorite Date: March 16, 2015 Source: Princeton University Summary: Scientists have discovered a quasicrystal -- so named because of its ...