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 Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 4:00 pm Post subject: Scientists Accidentally Create Improbable Two-Dimensional Q |
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A strange new substance has unexpectedly emerged from a university lab in Germany: a two-dimensional quasicrystal, consisting of 12-sided, non-repeating atomic units. The quasicrystalline film, described today in Nature, is the first example of a 2-D semi-ordered crystal - and the latest member of a family that already includes some of the most surprising forms of matter found either in nature or the lab.
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