Repost by PHYS ORG. Original article by University of Michigan. Click here to view the full news article. Summary: Quasicrystals. Those who have heard of this material know it is quite weird. What’s weird about it is that unlike normal crystals the pattern never repeats and has fivefold symmetry(whaaat!!). These materials became slightly popular in the early 2010s due to their exotic properties but fell out of favor mainly due to grain boundaries present in smaller quasicrystals. Now, researchers from the University of Michigan have figured out how to create large quasicrystals without defects from smaller ones. They hope that this will bring the material back into commercial use. An X-ray tomography visualization shows a top-down view of two quasicrystals as they start to meld together during cooling. Image credit: Shahani Group, University of Michigan
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