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This paper, published in the Physical Review Letters, [9] repeated Shechtman's observation and used the same illustrations as the original paper. Originally, the new form of matter was dubbed "Shechtmanite". [30] The term "quasicrystal" was first used in print by Paul Steinhardt and Dov Levine [2] shortly after Shechtman's paper was published.
MCM-41 (Mobil Composition of Matter No. 41) is a mesoporous material with a hierarchical structure from a family of silicate and alumosilicate solids that were first developed by researchers at Mobil Oil Corporation [2] and that can be used as catalysts or catalyst supports.
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An aperiodic tiling is a non-periodic tiling with the additional property that it does not contain arbitrarily large periodic regions or patches. A set of tile-types (or prototiles) is aperiodic if copies of these tiles can form only non-periodic tilings. The Penrose tilings are a well-known example of aperiodic tilings. [1] [2]
Biotic material, natural material, or natural product, a material produced by a living organism; Biomass, living or dead biological matter, often plants grown as fuel; Biomass (ecology), the total mass of living matter in a given environment, or of a given species; Body fluid, any liquid originating from inside the bodies of living people
A Penrose tiling with rhombi exhibiting fivefold symmetry. A Penrose tiling is an example of an aperiodic tiling.Here, a tiling is a covering of the plane by non-overlapping polygons or other shapes, and a tiling is aperiodic if it does not contain arbitrarily large periodic regions or patches.
The term hyperuniformity (also independently called super-homogeneity in the context of cosmology [22]) was coined and studied by Salvatore Torquato and Frank Stillinger in a 2003 paper, [1] in which they showed that, among other things, hyperuniformity provides a unified framework to classify and structurally characterize crystals, quasicrystals, and exotic disordered varieties.