It will also open the door to research on new aluminum alloys that use quasicrystals for strength. Quasicrystals are like ordinary crystals but with a few key differences. The quasicrystals found in ...

(Nanowerk News) Can the shape of a crystal really change how well it performs in clean energy technology? A new study says yes—decisively. Researchers from National Taiwan University, National Tsing ...

Department of Chemical Sciences, Synthesis and Solid State Pharmaceutical Centre, University of Limerick, Limerick V94 T9PX, Ireland Department of Chemical Engineering, University College London, ...

There are only 230 possible ways for atoms to form repeating crystal patterns. Quasicrystals don't fit into any of them. Their unique shape lets them form a pattern that fills the space ...

A Penrose tile pattern has some of the same properties as quasicrystals. Even though the image is made of a few identical basic shapes, the overall pattern never repeats. Source: NIST. Quasicrystals ...

There are only 230 possible ways for atoms to form repeating crystal patterns. Quasicrystals don't fit into any of them. Their unique shape lets them form a pattern that fills the space, but never ...