Intercrystals aren’t only distinct from conventional crystals. They also are different from quasicrystals, a special type of ...

Quasicrystals were discovered in 1982 by Dan Shechtman from the Technion Institute in Haifa 5. He found an intermetallic Al–Mn compound with the symmetry of an icosahedron, which is not ...

Institute of Quantum Physics, School of Physics, Central South University, 932 South Lushan Road, Changsha, Hunan 410083, People’s Republic of China State Key Laboratory of Precision Manufacturing for ...

Hunan Key Laboratory for Computation and Simulation in Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory of Intelligent Computing and Information Processing of Ministry of Education, School of Mathematics and ...

It may help us better understand the aftereffects of nuclear explosions and provide tools for future nuclear forensics. As the properties of quasicrystals are studied more deeply, they could reveal ...