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Quasicrystals - A Primer (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Quasicrystals - A Primer (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Series: Oxford Classic Texts in the Physical Sciences
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In 1984 physicists discovered a monster in the world of
crystallography, a structure that appeared to contain five-fold
symmetry axes, which cannot exist in strictly periodic structures.
Such quasi-periodic structures became known as quasicrystals. A
previously formulated theory in terms of higher dimensional space
groups was applied to them and new alloy phases were prepared which
exhibited the properties expected from this model more closely.
Thus many of the early controversies were dissolved. In 2011, the
Nobel Prize for Chemistry was awarded to Dan Shechtman for the
discovery of quasicrystals. This primer provides a descriptive
approach to the subject for those coming to it for the first time.
The various practical, experimental, and theoretical topics are
dealt with in an accessible style. The book is completed by problem
sets and there is a computer program that generates a Penrose
lattice.
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