Quasicrystals are non-periodic solids that were discovered in 1982 by Dan Shechtman, Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry 2011. The underlying mathematics, known as the theory of aperiodic order, is the ...

A team led by Professor Yiqi Zhang of Xi’an Jiaotong University and Professor Yaroslav V. Kartashov of the Russian Academy of ...

Nanopatterning of subwavelength features has already been achieved by silk replication of aperiodic structures consisting of an arrangement of 200-nm-diameter holes separated by as little as 30 nm ...

On the spectrum, these correspond to each peak. On the other hand, speech sounds can also be aperiodic when analysing them acoustically. This means that they do not have a regular repeating pattern, ...

Using state-of-the-art microscopy and simulation techniques, an international research team systematically observed how iron atoms alter the structure of grain boundaries in titanium. They were in for ...

A study reveals the influence of grain boundaries on materials, showing how iron levels change icosahedral structures and affect material properties. Through microscopy and simulations, researchers ...

“The icosahedral cages enable a dense packing of iron atoms and since they can form aperiodic clusters, more than two to ...

The interfaces between individual crystals in a material, known as grain boundaries (GBs), play a critical role in dictating ...