Thursday, March 6, 2014

ScienceShot: A New Type of 'Quasicrystal'


ScienceShot: A New Type of 'Quasicrystal'

In 1982, Daniel Shechtman, an Israeli materials scientist, was first to spot a new type of irregular crystal, known as a quasicrystal. Unlike conventional crystals that have a regular repeating pattern to their member atoms, in quasicrystals the pattern is ordered but doesn’t repeat. Since Shechtman’s discovery, hundreds of quasicrystals have been discovered, most of which are alloys of two or three metals
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