Forty years of quasicrystals: a bumpy road to triumph
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چکیده
On April 8, 1982, Dan Shechtman conducted an electron diffraction experiment on aluminum/manganese alloy. The pattern showed tenfold symmetry although the rules of crystallography excluded such in extended structures. Alan L. Mackay had anticipated structures, which fit his view generalized crystallography. persisted claiming to have observed quasiperiodic structures despite denial even by Linus Pauling, greatest authority chemistry. When Shechtman’s claim was finally accepted, he amply awarded for contribution, including Nobel Prize 2011. theoretical physicists Paul J. Steinhardt and Dove Levine coined name quasicrystals, advanced field greatly their models, but appeared downplay somewhat significance prior predictions experimental discovery.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Structural Chemistry
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['1572-9001', '1040-0400']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11224-021-01873-0