Neither glass nor crystal, quasicrystals have symmetries once considered to be impossible for solids.
Now, 25 years after successfully creating artificial quasicrystals in the lab, scientists from Princeton University and elsewhere have found perfect quasicrystals in nature, locked inside a rock from a Russian mountain range.
Now, 25 years after successfully creating artificial quasicrystals in the lab, scientists from Princeton University and elsewhere have found perfect quasicrystals in nature, locked inside a rock from a Russian mountain range.
Full article by Eric Bland on Discovery News
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