Quasicrystals as cluster aggregates

Nature Materials

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 759-767

  Abe, Eiji ^a   Yan, Yanfa ^b   Pennycook, Stephen J ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; CRYSTAL MICROSTRUCTURE; CRYSTAL SYMMETRY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

ATOMIC DECORATION; DIFFRACTION PATTERN; ICOSAHEDRAL CONFIGURATION; QUASIPERIODICITY;

QUASICRYSTALS;

ARTICLE; CRYSTALLIZATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CRYSTALLIZATION; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING;

EID: 8344221272     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1244     Document Type: Review

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