Quasi-crystals (Shechtman 1984)

Layer 2 — Chemistryin the crystallography subtree

Shechtman 1984 (Nobel 2011) Al-Mn icosahedral diffraction with 5-fold symmetry; Penrose-tile aperiodic order; long-range order without translational periodicity; redefines crystal definition.

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