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A journey through the history of quasicrystals » MIT Physics

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Quasicrystals are solids made of conductive metals like aluminum, copper, and iron and are used in many practical items, like non-stick frying pans, needles, and LED lights. Recently, U of T physics professor and researcher Sergio C. de la Barrera and his colleagues from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Aviram Uri, Sergio de la Barrera, Mallika Randeria, Daniel Rodan-Legrain, Trithep Devakul, Philip Crowley, Nisarga Paul, Liang Fu, Raymond Ashoori and Pablo Jarillo-Herrero) discovered a way to create superconductive quasicrystals. Properties of quasicrystals Quasicrystals have properties of both crystalline structures, like diamonds, and amorphous structures — structures without an atomically definite form — like glass. Like crystals, the atoms of quasicrystals are organized into patterns. Like amorphous solids, those patterns do not repeat. Regular crystals exhibit two-fold, three-fold, four-fold, or six-fold symmetry at the atomic level. This means they can be divided into

ZAINAB AFAQ/THE VARSITY ZAINAB AFAQ/THE VARSITY A journey through the history of quasicrystals Chris Zdravko // March 3, 2024 Categories: In The News , Faculty , Graduate Students , Pappalardo Fellows , Condensed Matter Experiment U of T and MIT physicists’ recent discoveries about the nature of these structures Quasicrystals are solids made of conductive metals like aluminum, copper, and iron and are used in many practical items, like non-stick frying pans, needles, and LED lights. Recently, U of T physics professor and researcher Sergio C. de la Barrera and his colleagues from the Massachuse

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