Quasicrystal: Structure, Crystallographic Restriction Theorem, Crystal, Glass, Bragg Diffraction, Paradigm Shift, Aperiodic Tiling, Translational Symmetry, Dan Shechtman

Quasicrystal: Structure, Crystallographic Restriction Theorem, Crystal, Glass, Bragg Diffraction, Paradigm Shift, Aperiodic Tiling, Translational Symmetry, Dan Shechtman
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Страниц
 
124
ISBN
 
6130343167
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Новинки академической литературы Америки - 2010

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Quasicrystals are structural forms that are both ordered and nonperiodic. They form patterns that fill all the space but lack translational symmetry. Classical theory of crystals allows only 2, 3, 4, and 6-fold rotational symmetries, but quasicrystals display symmetry of other orders (folds). They can be said to be in a state intermediate between crystal and glass. Just like crystals, quasicrystals produce modified Bragg diffraction, but where crystals have a simple repeating structure, quasicrystals are more complex. Aperiodic tilings were discovered by mathematicians in the early 1960s, but some twenty years later they were found to apply to the study of quasicrystals. The discovery of these aperiodic forms in nature has produced a paradigm shift in the fields of crystallography and solid state physics.

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