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Chemistry World March 6, 2014 Emma Stoye |
Buckyballs form up into quasicrystal layer Flat, two-dimensional layers of molecules structured like quasicrystals -- crystals that show order without repeating patterns -- have been made for the first time by scientists in the UK and Japan.  |
Chemistry World February 2010 |
Column: The crucible Not all snowflakes are six-pointed.  |
Chemistry World April 22, 2014 Stephen McCarthy |
Molecules mimic mesmerizing mathematics Computer modelling has shown for the first time how organic molecules could assemble into molecular quasicrystals, raising the possibility of new materials with exotic properties.  |
Chemistry World October 10, 2013 Jon Cartwright |
Quasicrystals discovered in oxides Physicists and chemists in Germany have discovered quasiperiodic crystals, or quasicrystals, in oxide materials. The discovery suggests there could be many more quasicrystals out there, despite only a few having been found to date.  |
Chemistry World November 2011 |
Quasicrystals Scoop Prize The 2011 Nobel prize in chemistry was awarded to Daniel Shechtman of the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, for the discovery of quasicrystals.  |
Reactive Reports Issue 72 David Bradley |
Ice Age the Movie The ordered structure of ice dissolves little by little into disorder when a tiny burst of light hits an ice crystal.  |
Chemistry World August 13, 2015 Tim Wogan |
Quasicrystal first as scientists watch them growing under the microscope The first experimental observation of quasicrystal growth has been conducted in aluminum -- nickel -- cobalt by researchers in Japan.  |
Chemistry World January 9, 2012 Simon Hadlington |
A question mark over cubic ice's existence Chemistry textbooks may have to be rewritten after scientists in the UK showed that an exotic type of ice crystal formed from supercooled water has probably been misidentified and might not exist.  |
Chemistry World December 18, 2006 Philip Ball |
Ice Crystals Trapped Inside Nanotubes At this time of year there are reminders everywhere of the beautiful structures that water can form when it freezes. But the ice crystals predicted in computer simulations by Xiao Cheng Zeng and colleagues are as striking as any snowflake.  |
Chemistry World July 24, 2012 Laura Howes |
Silica coaxed into quasicrystal form Mesoporous silica has been coaxed into dodecagonal quasicrystal structures by scientists at Stockholm University, Sweden.  |
Chemistry World October 5, 2011 Laura Howes |
Crystals That Aren't Quite Crystalline Win Nobel Dany Shechtman took this year's chemistry Nobel Prize for his work on quasicrystals.  |
Chemistry World March 10, 2009 Alexander Hellemans |
Making pentagonal ice An international group of researchers have discovered that pentagonal structures of ice can be formed on copper surfaces consisting of Cu (110) substrates.  |
Chemistry World June 4, 2009 Phillip Broadwith |
Natural quasicrystals discovered Scientists have discovered a rare form of solid - a quasicrystal - in a rock sample from Russia's Koryak mountains.  |
Chemistry World August 17, 2012 |
Crystals through the looking glass Crystalline, amorphous and, recently, quasicrystalline -- those are the phases of solid matter we all know. But US based scientists have now added another to that list.  |
Chemistry World December 11, 2007 Lewis Brindley |
Chemists Fake Virus Capsids Scientists have made molecular 'tiles' that stick together, mimicking the football-like outer shell of a virus. Such self-assembling molecular capsules would be big enough to hold drug molecules and could provide new ways to make nanoparticles.  |