Exotic quasicrystal found in Siberian meteorite

• Autores: Leah Crane
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3104-3106, 2016, pág. 7
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • There's more than one way to cook a quasicrystal. A third example of these weird, rule-breaking solids has been found in a Siberian meteorite--and it's the only one not to have been first created in the lab. Paul Steinhardt at Princeton University has doggedly hunted for quasicrystals since he predicted their existence in the early 1980s. The first synthetic one was grown in the lab in 1982, and more than ion types have been made since.