Nature, Published online: 25 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03772-w
In 1984, scientists made a crystalline alloy that had a seemingly impossible arrangement of atoms. They had discovered the first quasicrystal — a type of material that transformed ideas about how atoms can be ordered in solids.
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