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.

Quasicrystals are solids that exhibit symmetries long thought forbidden in nature. Since their discovery in a rapidly solidified Al–Mn alloy in 1984, the central issue in the field has been to ...

Its mushroom cloud grew eight miles high. Desert sand melted. Radiation filled the air. Also, amidst the destruction, something lovely was born. Mathematically perfect quasicrystals—a “forbidden” kind ...

More information: Erina Fujita et al, Comprehensive experimental datasets of quasicrystals and their approximants, Scientific Data (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41597-024-04043-z Provided by Research ...

Scientists searching for quasicrystals—so-called ‘impossible’ materials with unusual, non-repeating structures—have identified one in remnants of the world’s first nuclear bomb test.

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 ...

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 ...

Plastic fantastic? Quasicrystal deformations and bending observed. When shrunk to the nanoscale, quasicrystals become plastic. That is the finding of an international team of researchers, which says ...

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 ...