Quo Vadis Quasicrystals?

This Special Issue aims at gaining a deeper understanding on the relationship between the underlying structural order and the resulting physical properties in aperiodic systems, including quasicrystalline and related complex metallic alloys, photonic quasicrystals, and other structures exhibiting lo...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autor: Maciá Barber, Enrique Alfonso
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Recursos:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/19157
Acesso em linha:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/19157
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:quasicrystals
aperiodic crystals
photonic quasicrystals
aperiodic structures
complex intermetallics
Hume-Rothery compounds
push-pull alloys
skutterudites
chemical bonding
Física de materiales
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Resumo:This Special Issue aims at gaining a deeper understanding on the relationship between the underlying structural order and the resulting physical properties in aperiodic systems, including quasicrystalline and related complex metallic alloys, photonic quasicrystals, and other structures exhibiting long-range aperiodic order. This Special Issue contains 12 papers which highlight recent developments in quasiperiodic crystal structure, photonic quasicrystals and related optical devices, the intrinsic electrical, thermal, and mechanical properties of icosahedral and decagonal metallic alloys, and the nature of chemical bonding in intermetallic compounds, from a multidisciplinary perspective. In light of the results presented in the contributions collected in this Special Issue, we can confidently expect that new insights into the interdisciplinary science of quasicrystals will be gained in the years to come, providing a sharper picture of their structures and related physical properties, and spurring further progress in practical issues related to both materials engineering science and nanotechnology.