Natural quasicrystals

Science

Volumn 324, Issue 5932, 2009, Pages 1306-1309

  Bindi, Luca ^a   Steinhardt, Paul J ^b   Yao, Nan ^c   Lu, Peter J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Princeton University   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOY; ALUMINUM; COPPER; IRON; MINERAL;

CRYSTAL; LABORATORY METHOD; MINERALOGY; MOUNTAIN REGION; SYMMETRY;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL; GEOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SAMPLE;

EURASIA; KORYAK HIGHLANDS; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 66749153327     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1170827     Document Type: Article

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20. We are indebted to L. Hollister and G. MacPherson for their critical examination of the results, especially regarding the issue of natural origin. We also thank P. Bonazzi, K. Deffeyes, S. Menchetti, and P. Spry for useful discussions and S. Bambi at the Museo di Storia Naturale for the photograph of the original sample in Fig. 1A. L.B. thanks the Ministerio dell'lstruzione dell'Università e della Ricerca Programma di Ricerca Nazionale 2007 project "Complexity in minerals: modulation, phase transition, structural disorder," issued to S. Menchetti. This work was supported in part by U.S. Department of Energy grant DE-FG02-91ER40671 (P.J.S.), the NSF MRSEC program through New York University (grant DMR-0820341; P.J.S.), the Princeton Center for Complex Materials (grant DMR-0819860; N.Y.), and the New Jersey Commission of Science and Technology (N.Y.).