Quasi-crystal
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A material with a structure that is ordered but not periodic, essentially a 3D analog of aperiodic tilings, first theorized by Paul Steinhardt and experimentally discovered by Dan Shechtman.
A material with a structure that is ordered but not periodic, essentially a 3D analog of aperiodic tilings, first theorized by Paul Steinhardt and experimentally discovered by Dan Shechtman.