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Quasicrystals: Sections of Hyperspace
Author(s) -
Steurer Walter
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201107163
Subject(s) - quasicrystal , quasiperiodic function , hyperspace , aperiodic graph , penrose tiling , moment (physics) , quasiperiodicity , physics , condensed matter physics , mathematics , combinatorics , classical mechanics , quantum mechanics
Since the moment Dan Shechtman discovered a material with an ordered but aperiodic (“quasiperiodic”) structure, which was believed to be impossible at the time, he began a long battle to convince his colleagues that his data were real. His efforts were finally rewarded with a Nobel Prize. The picture shows the projected electron density distribution function of decagonal Al‐Co‐Ni with Penrose tiling as an example of a quasicrystal.