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Nature 461, 892-893 (15 October 2009) | doi:10.1038/461892a; Published online 14 October 2009
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Materials science: Quasicrystals from nanocrystals
Alfons van Blaaderen1
Abstract
Quasicrystals have a host of unusual physical properties. These intermediates between amorphous solids and regular crystalline materials can now be made to self-assemble from nanoparticles.
The discovery of quasicrystals about 25 years ago1, 2 brought about a paradigm shift in solid-state physics. The observation that the arrangement of atoms in these solids exhibited long-range order yet lacked the three-dimensional periodicity and translational symmetry that characterizes conventional crystals puzzled physicists3, 4, 5 — not least because certain 'forbidden' rotational symmetries occur in these materials.
- Alfons van Blaaderen is in the Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science, Utrecht University, 3582 CC Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Email: a.vanblaaderen@uu.nl
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