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The theoretical concept of quasicrystals (Levine and Steinhardt in Phys Rev Lett 53:2477–2480, 1984) and the contemporary experimental breakthrough (Shechtman et al. in Phys Rev Lett 53:1951–1953, 1984) happened about 35 years ago. Since then, several new types of quasicrystalline materials have been synthesized in the laboratory under controlled protocols designed to avoid solidification of material having a periodic structure typical of a crystal.
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Bindi, L. (2020). Introduction. In: Natural Quasicrystals. SpringerBriefs in Crystallography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45677-1_1
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