Aperiodic Crystals

Aperiodic Crystals collects 37 selected papers from the scientific contributions presented at Aperiodic 2012 - the Seventh International Conference on Aperiodic Crystals held in Cairns, Australia, 2-7 of September 2012. The volume discusses state-of-the-art discoveries, new trends and applications o...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Schmid, Siegbert. (Editor), Withers, Ray L. (Editor), Lifshitz, Ron. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
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Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6431-6
Table of Contents:
  • A brief history of aperiodic crystals: 1962-2012
  • Squiral Diffraction
  • Random Noble Means Substitutions
  • Magic Numbers in the Discrete Tomography of Cyclotomic Model Sets
  • Some Comments on the Inverse Problem of Pure Point Diffraction
  • Well-rounded sublattices and coincidence site lattices
  • Octagon-based Quasi-crystalline Formations in Islamic Architecture
  • The Ammann-Beenker Tilings Revisited
  • Substitution rules and topological properties of the Robinson tilings
  • Short-range Spin Fluctuation in the Zn-Mg-Tb Quasicrystal and the Relation to the Boson peak
  • Anomalous properties and the electronic glass-like state in Al-based stable quasicrystals
  • Quantum Diffusion in Separable d-Dimensional Quasiperiodic Tilings
  • Hume-Rothery Stabilization Mechanism of Be-Based Complex Alloys
  • Hume-Rothery Stabilization Mechanism in Tsai-type Cd6Ca Approximant and e/a Determination of Ca and Cd Elements in the Periodic Table
  • Hume-Rothery Stabilization Mechanism in Low-Temperature Phase Zn6Sc Approximant and e/a Determination of Sc and Y in M-Sc and M-Y (M=Zn, Cd and Al) Alloy Systems
  • Analysis of dislocations in quasicrystals composed of self-assembled nanoparticles
  • Average Unit Cell in Fourier Space and Its Application to Decagonal Quasicrystals
  • Study of phase equilibria in Al-Pd-Co system at 700 ʻC
  • Evolution of phases in selected Al-Co-Cu complex metallic alloys under near-equilibrium conditions at 800-1150ʻC
  • Superspace Description of the System Bi2(n+2)MonO6(n+1) (n = 3, 4, 5 and 6)
  • Pseudo-Commensurate GdBaCo2O5+þ and Its Phase Transition at Elevated Temperatures
  • Al4(Cr,Fe): a structure survey
  • Phase transitions in aperiodic composite crystals
  • Pseudo Symmetry in Tungsten Bronze Type Sr3TiNb4O15
  • Structural Investigation of the Incommensurate Modulated Ta2O5"Al2O3 System
  • First-principles study for phase diagrams of Cd-Ca and Cd-Y Tsai-type Approximants under pressure
  • The choice of vector basis for Ammann Tiling in a context of the Average Unit Cell
  • Real Space Structure Factor and Scaling for Quasicrystals
  • Direct observations of aperiodic arrangements of transition-metal atoms in Al-Co-Ni decagonal quasicrystals by Cs-corrected HAADF-STEM
  • Arrangement of transition-metal atoms in an approximant crystal related to Al-Cu-Co decagonal quasicrystals studied by Cs-corrected HAADF-STEM
  • Structure of e 16 phase in Al-Pd-Co system studied by HREM and X-ray diffraction
  • Structure of t2-Al3Co, a monoclinic approximant of the Al-Co decagonal quasicrystal
  • Reverse Monte Carlo study of diffuse scattering from a frustrated protein system
  • Dynamical flexibilty in the periodic Zn6Sc 1/1-approximant
  • Trajectories of colloidal particles in laser fields with eight-, ten-, or twelve-fold symmetry and phasonic drift
  • Catalytic properties of fivefold surfaces of quasicrystal approximants
  • Effect of leaching on surface microstructure and chemical composition of Al-based quasicrystals.