Breaking translational symmetry while maintaining long range order is one fascinating aspect of quasicrystals. For two-dimensional oxide quasicrystals, researchers at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the Max Planck Institute Halle, and the University Grenoble-Alpes settle a long-standing question and explain the mechanism by which quasicrystrals are formed using a combination of x-ray diffraction experiments and first-principles energy stability calculations. This work was published in Nature Communications on December 7th, 2022.
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