Quasicrystal surfaces.
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.
Thiel
Patricia A
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Ames Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA. pthiel@iastate.edu