Quasicrystals are a unique class of materials with considerable promise for practical applications because of their unusual properties. But progress toward realizing that commercial potential has ...

This behaviour did not occur when the quasicrystals were outside a certain range of alignment, and unwanted grain boundaries could form. Shahani’s team hopes that its new insights into growing ...

Quasicrystals, which have the ordered structure but not the repeating patterns of ordinary crystals, can be manufactured with a range of alluring properties. They can be ultra-hard or super-slippery.

Quasicrystals do not have the translational symmetry of ordinary crystals but have a high degree of order in their atomic arrangement. The first quasicrystal was discovered in 1984 by Israeli ...

As the name implies, quasicrystals are somewhere between a crystal such as a diamond, which has a regular repeating structure, and an amorphous material like glass, “where the atoms are all jumbled, ...

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 ...

“There is no such thing as quasicrystals, only quasi-scientists,” Pauling is reported to have said. The first part of the book is devoted to the extraordinary effort that Steinhardt and a few of his ...

On July 16, 1945, the United States conducted the world’s first-ever nuclear test, known as the Trinity test, in the desert ...

Mar 20, 2013: Research shows potential for quasicrystals (Nanowerk News) Ever since their discovery in 1984, the burgeoning area of research looking at quasiperiodic structures has revealed ...

Until 1982, quasicrystals weren't just undiscovered, they were believed to be physically impossible. Mathematicians now offer a key proof in the study of quasicrystals. The work, which was 10 ...