{"id":163668,"date":"2023-05-11T08:22:31","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T13:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/researchers-discover-liquid-quasicrystal-with-dodecagonal-tiling-pattern"},"modified":"2023-05-11T08:22:31","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T13:22:31","slug":"researchers-discover-liquid-quasicrystal-with-dodecagonal-tiling-pattern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/researchers-discover-liquid-quasicrystal-with-dodecagonal-tiling-pattern","title":{"rendered":"Researchers discover liquid quasicrystal with dodecagonal tiling pattern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-discover-liquid-quasicrystal-with-dodecagonal-tiling-pattern2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An unusual quasicrystal has been discovered by a team from the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU), the University of Sheffield and Xi\u2019an Jiaotong University. It has a dodecagonal honeycomb structure that has never been seen before. Until now, similar quasicrystals were only known to come in a solid\u2014not liquid\u2014form. The team presents its results in the journal Nature Chemistry.<\/p>\n<p>Quasicrystals have a special structure. They have a regular pattern similar to normal crystals, however, in normal crystals, the arrangement of the individual components is repeated over and over at <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/regular+intervals\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">regular intervals<\/a>. In the case of quasicrystals, the components do not fit together in such a periodic pattern. This special structure gives them special properties that normal crystals do not have.<\/p>\n<p>The newly discovered <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quasicrystal\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quasicrystal<\/a> consists of dodecagons, which in turn are made up of a mixture of triangular, square and, for the first time, trapezoidal shaped cells. These are generated from the self-assembly of \u201cT-shaped\u201d molecules. \u201cWe have discovered a perfectly ordered liquid quasicrystal. Such a material has never been seen before,\u201d says chemist Professor Carsten Tschierske at MLU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unusual quasicrystal has been discovered by a team from the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU), the University of Sheffield and Xi\u2019an Jiaotong University. It has a dodecagonal honeycomb structure that has never been seen before. Until now, similar quasicrystals were only known to come in a solid\u2014not liquid\u2014form. The team presents its results in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}