Forty years of crazy crystals

• 成果类型: Editorial Material
• 署名作者: Glotzer, Sharon C.
• 署名单位: University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
• 刊物名称: Nature
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0028-4095
• DOI: 10.1038/d41586-024-03772-w
• 发表日期: 2024-11-28
• 页码: 819-820
• 关键词: quasi-crystals

摘要

In 1984, scientists made a crystalline alloy that had a seemingly impossible arrangement of atoms. They had discovered the first quasicrystal - a type of material that transformed ideas about how atoms can be ordered in solids.