Aperiodic crystals from modulated phases to quasicrystals : structure and properties

Until the 1970s all materials studied consisted of periodic arrays of unit cells, or were amorphous. In the following decades a new class of solid state matter, called aperiodic crystals, has been found. It is a long-range ordered structure, but without lattice periodicity. It is found in a wide ran...

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Hauptverfasser: Janssen, T. (VerfasserIn), Chapuis, Gervais (VerfasserIn), Boissieu, Marc de (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford Oxford University Press [2018]
Ausgabe:Second edition
Schriftenreihe:IUCr monographs on crystallography 28
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Zusammenfassung:Until the 1970s all materials studied consisted of periodic arrays of unit cells, or were amorphous. In the following decades a new class of solid state matter, called aperiodic crystals, has been found. It is a long-range ordered structure, but without lattice periodicity. It is found in a wide range of materials: organic and inorganic compounds, minerals (including a substantial portion of the earth's crust), and metallic alloys, under various pressures and temperatures. Because of the lack of periodicity the usual techniques for the study of structure and physical properties no longer work, and new techniques have to be developed. This work deals with the characterization of the structure, the structure determination, and the study of the physical properties, especially the dynamical and electronic properties of aperiodic crystals
Beschreibung:This edition previously issued in print: 2018
Beschreibung:xviii, 532 pages
ISBN:9780191863288
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780198824442.001.0001