title: Quasicrystal surfaces.
abstract: Studies of ordered, yet nonperiodic, metallic alloys known as quasicrystals have generated exciting questions and fundamental insights about the relationship between surface atomic structure and surface properties. In this review, I give examples from oxidation, friction, heterogeneous catalysis, and solid film growth, in which the Al-rich quasicrystals exhibit unusual properties, relative to crystalline materials of similar composition.
authors.affiliation: Ames Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA. pthiel@iastate.edu
authors.forename: Patricia A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Thiel