Natural Quasicrystals The Solar System’s Hidden Secrets
This book describes the discovery of quasicrystals (icosahedral and decagonal) in an extraterrestrial rock from the Koryak Mountains of Far Eastern Russia. After a decade-long search for a natural quasicrystal, this discovery opened a new avenue in mineralogy and crystallography that could lead to f...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2020, 2020
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2020 |
| Series: | SpringerBriefs in Crystallography
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. What are quasicrystals and why are so important?
- Chapter 3. Can Nature have beaten us to the punch?
- Chapter 4. From crystalsto quasicrystals: There 's plenty of room between them
- Chapter 5. High pressure needed! The crystallagraphy of quasicrystals at extreme conditions
- Chapter 6. Dynamic versus static pressure: quasicrystals and shock experiments
- Chapter 7. Why quasicrystals grow in asteroidal collisions?
- Chapter 8. On the stability of quinary quasicrystals
- Chapter 9. Are quasicrystals really so rare in the Universe?