{"id":86350,"date":"2019-01-03T05:02:31","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T13:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/physicists-just-created-a-strange-new-type-of-quasicrystal-in-the-lab"},"modified":"2019-01-03T05:02:31","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T13:02:31","slug":"physicists-just-created-a-strange-new-type-of-quasicrystal-in-the-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/physicists-just-created-a-strange-new-type-of-quasicrystal-in-the-lab","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Just Created a Strange New Type of \u2018Quasicrystal\u2019 in The Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-just-created-a-strange-new-type-of-quasicrystal-in-the-lab2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dan Shechtman has the rare honour of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/prizes\/chemistry\/2011\/shechtman\/facts\/\">possessing a Nobel Prize<\/a> for \u2018nonsense\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been nearly four decades since he set out to convince the chemist community of a discovery most considered impossible \u2013 a material called a quasicrystal. Now we have just observed a brand new variety of these once \u2018impossible\u2019 materials for the first time, one based on a single unit.<\/p>\n<p>Chemists from Brown University have described the successful creation of a self-constructing lattice structure based on a strangely shaped quantum dot.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/quasicrystals-were-once-impossible-we-re-still-finding-new-ways-to-make-them\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/quasicrystals-were-once-impossi...-make-them<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Shechtman has the rare honour of possessing a Nobel Prize for \u2018nonsense\u2019. It\u2019s been nearly four decades since he set out to convince the chemist community of a discovery most considered impossible \u2013 a material called a quasicrystal. Now we have just observed a brand new variety of these once \u2018impossible\u2019 materials for the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86350","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}