RT Journal Article
T1 Quasicrystals and Other Aperiodic Structures in Mineralogy
A1 Pina Martínez, Carlos Manuel
A1 López-Acevedo Cornejo, María Victoria
AB In this article, we first present and discuss eighteenth-century descriptions of minerals that contributed decisively to the development of crystallography. Remarkably, these old crystallographic descriptions included morphologies with symmetries incompatible with an internal periodic order of atoms, which, however, have been recognised to be characteristics of quasicrystals. Moreover, we also review a number of studies of minerals with aperiodic crystal structures, including recently reported natural quasicrystals of extra-terrestrial origin. Finally, we discuss the current investigations addressing the search for new quasicrystalline minerals in nature.
PB MDPI
SN 2073-4352
YR 2016
FD 2016
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/23842
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/23842
LA eng
DS Docta Complutense
RD 8 abr 2025