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Novel Microstructures for Solids

Novel Microstructures for Solids

Paperback

Series: Iop Concise Physics

Technology & EngineeringGeneral SciencePhysics

ISBN10: 1643273353
ISBN13: 9781643273358
Publisher: Morgan & Claypool
Published: Dec 5 2018
Pages: 126
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.27 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English

For many years, evidence suggested that all solid materials either possessed a periodic crystal structure as proposed by the Braggs or they were amorphous glasses with no long-range order. In the 1970s, Roger Penrose hypothesized structures (Penrose tilings) with long-range order which were not periodic. The existence of a solid phase, known as a quasicrystal, that possessed the structure of a three dimensional Penrose tiling, was demonstrated experimentally in 1984 by Dan Shechtman and colleagues. Shechtman received the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery. The discovery and description of quasicrystalline materials provided the first concrete evidence that traditional crystals could be viewed as a subset of a more general category of ordered materials.

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