The red trinitite sample that contained the quasicrystal. It was formed in the aftermath of the first nuclear detonation in 1945—the famous Trinity Test at the Alamorgordo Bombing Range in New ...

Stem cell tech simulates ALS, quantum tools decode quasicrystals, and cancer exploits a human mutation—three breakthroughs ...

As a result, a quasicrystal's atoms can be arranged in ways that are not commonly found in crystals, such as the shape of a 20-sided icosahedron with the symmetry of a soccer ball. The concept of ...

Quasicrystals are bizarre, rare, mysterious materials blending mathematical order and irregularity. A new, unexpected material halfway between a regular crystal and a quasicrystal may help reveal ...

A predicted quasicrystal is based on the ‘einstein’ tile known as the hat. The theoretical material is similar to graphene, but it isn’t a regular crystal ...

The new form of matter that the team propose should have a non-periodic atomic structure, like a quasicrystal, while also being able to flow without friction, like a superfluid, ...

Now Yaacov Kraus, Oded Zilberberg and colleagues at Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science have shown that a similar 2D topological effect can be seen in how light propagates in a 1D quasicrystal – ...

The newfound quasicrystal was found in Nebraska, near the village of Hyannis. (Image credit: Luca Bindi) Dramatic discharge . Fulgurites form when lightning hits sand, fusing together the grains ...

“However, at 15% aluminium, the alloy transformed into a quasicrystal, and the critical temperature plummeted to about 0.05 K,” says Kamiya. Dramatic jump. At 0.05 K, the specific heat of the ...

But quasicrystal’s building blocks don’t repeat regularly; they have asymmetric, non-repeating structures, making them perplexing in three dimensions and almost magical in others; ...

After being shaken for about a week, thousands of millimetre-sized metal beads arranged themselves into an exotic structure called a quasicrystal – and it was the biggest one yet.