Chemists create new quasicrystal material from nanoparticle building blocks
Date | 20th, Dec 2018 |
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Source | Phys.org - Scientific News Websites |
DESCRIPTION
The strange class of materials known as quasicrystals has a new member. In a paper published on Thursday, Dec. 20, in Science, researchers from Brown University describe a quasicrystalline superlattice that self-assembles from a single type of nanoparticle building blocks.