Quasicrystals : a primer /

In 1984 physicists discovered a monster in the world of crystallography, a structure that appeared to contain five-fold symmetry axes, which cannot exist in strictly periodic structures. Such quasi-periodic structures became known as quasicrystals. A previously formulated theory in terms of higher d...

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Main Author: Janot, C. 1936-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997, ©1994.
Edition:2nd ed.
Series:Monographs on the physics and chemistry of materials ; 50.
Oxford science publications.
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