Quasicrystals are a unique class of materials with considerable promise for practical applications because of their unusual properties. But progress toward realizing that commercial potential has ...

Quasicrystals are materials with unique, non-periodic symmetry that distinguishes them from conventional crystals. Approximant crystals, often regarded as precursor materials closely related to ...

Quasicrystals, exotic states of matter characterized by an ordered structure with non-repeating spatial patterns, have been the focus of numerous recent physics studies due to their unique ...

In crystals, atoms are arranged in a repeating pattern. In quasicrystals, they are still ordered but the pattern is not periodic: it doesn’t repeat. This oddity results in unexpected rotational ...

They discover that the topological properties of quasicrystals come from periodic patterns in 4D, revolutionizing optics and ...

An international team of researchers has found nine new samples of naturally occurring quasicrystals. The work also provides further proof that quasicrystals were delivered to the Earth by a meteorite ...

But why? What’s so special about quasicrystals? Schectman’s is an interesting story, involving a fierce battle against established science, ridicule and mockery from colleagues and a boss who ...

Now, scientists from the University of Paris-Saclay have created quasicrystals in a lab using millimeter-size metal spheres, revealing how these strange structures form. They were actually thought ...

This isn’t for some form of labyrinthine torture, but to investigate the possible world-changing properties of quasicrystals—exotic materials in which atoms repeat in a pattern, but the ...

Ilmari Karonen / Wikimedia Commons The team’s maze works similarly; it is an assemblage of Hamiltonian cycles in quasicrystals. Don’t worry, we’ll explain. A detailed explanation of the maze ...

This is the foundation for what they are calling the world’s most difficult maze. Quasicrystals are a rare and exotic type of matter that are made up of several atoms. Image source: Ezume Images ...

Among the quasicrystals that have sparked significant interest among the physics community are so-called quantum quasicrystals, which are comprised of bosons (i.e., subatomic particles that have ...