In search of natural quasicrystals

Reports on Progress in Physics

Volumn 75, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Steinhardt, Paul J ^a   Bindi, Luca ^b,c  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c SEZIONE DI FIRENZE   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

NANOMATERIAL;

CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; REVIEW; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CRYSTALLIZATION; NANOSTRUCTURES;

EID: 84865854910     PISSN: 00344885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0034-4885/75/9/092601     Document Type: Article

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