{"id":31363,"date":"2016-10-25T07:49:07","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T14:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/researchers-discover-new-rules-for-quasicrystals"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:07:29","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:07:29","slug":"researchers-discover-new-rules-for-quasicrystals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/researchers-discover-new-rules-for-quasicrystals","title":{"rendered":"Researchers discover new rules for quasicrystals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-discover-new-rules-for-quasicrystals.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Crystals are defined by their repeating, symmetrical patterns and long-range order. Unlike amorphous materials, in which atoms are randomly packed together, the atoms in a crystal are arranged in a predictable way. Quasicrystals are an exotic exception to this rule. First discovered in 1982, their atoms pack together in an orderly fashion, but in a mosaic-like pattern that doesn\u2019t repeat and can\u2019t be predicted from a small sample.<\/p>\n<p>Being able to map out the position of <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/individual+atoms\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">individual atoms<\/a> within a quasicrystal is a prerequisite for achieving a complete understanding of their structure and aids in designing them for specific applications, but conventional microscopy techniques don\u2019t have the resolution to accomplish such a task.<\/p>\n<p>In an effort to address this challenge, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan have engineered a quasicrystal that is formed by self-assembling nanoparticles, which are an order of magnitude larger than the atoms that comprise traditional quasicrystals. Their larger size enabled the team to use a suite of microscopy and simulation techniques to deduce, for the first time, the full three-dimensional configuration of a spontaneously formed quasicrystal.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016-10-quasicrystals.html\">http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016&#45;10-quasicrystals.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crystals are defined by their repeating, symmetrical patterns and long-range order. Unlike amorphous materials, in which atoms are randomly packed together, the atoms in a crystal are arranged in a predictable way. Quasicrystals are an exotic exception to this rule. First discovered in 1982, their atoms pack together in an orderly fashion, but in a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31363","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\/409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31363"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65929,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31363\/revisions\/65929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}