A new method overcomes this challenge. Single grains of a scandium-zinc quasicrystal have 12 pentagonal faces. Image credit: Yamada et al. (2016). IUCrJ Study: Quasicrystal stability and nucleation ...

To calculate the stability of a solid whose atoms don't repeat in a sequence, the researchers simulated scoops of quasicrystal that were randomly sampled out of a larger block. The energy within ...

The most accurate estimates of quasicrystal energy require the largest particles possible, but scaling up the nanoparticles is difficult with standard algorithms. For nanoparticles with only hundreds ...

Illustrations of the deposition structure of lead. The Tsai cluster in the substrate quasicrystal which is near the surface of the substrate is cut at the point where it contacts the surface. While ...

Add -b to define one of the three available backgrounds: gaussian noise (0), plain white (1), quasicrystal (2) or picture (3). When using picture background (3). A picture from the pictures/ folder ...

In this paper, the effective electroelastic properties of one-dimensional (1D) hexagonal piezoelectric quasicrystal containing randomly oriented inclusions are considered. The explicit expressions are ...