Overview
- Contributions from the global leaders of international distinction
- Proceedings from the triennial aperiodic conferences
- Covers the whole field and state-of-the-art aspects of aperiodic crystals
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (37 papers)
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Front Matter
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About this book
Aperiodic Crystals collects 37 selected papers from the scientific contributions presented at Aperiodic 2012 - the Seventh International Conference on Aperiodic Crystalsheld held in Cairns, Australia, 2-7 of September 2012.
The volume discusses state-of-the-art discoveries, new trends and applications of aperiodic crystals - including incommensurately modulated crystals, composite crystals, and quasicrystals - from a wide range of different perspectives. Starting with a general historical introduction to aperiodic crystals, the book proceeds to examine the complex mathematics of aperiodic long-range order, as well as the theoretical approaches aimed at understanding some of the unique properties and mechanisms underlying the existence of aperiodic crystals. The book then explores in detail such topics as complex metallic alloys, modulated structures, quasicrystals and their approximants, dynamics, disorder and defects in quasicrystals. It concludes with an analysis of quasicrystal surfaces and their properties.
By describing the latest research and the progress made on the structure determination of aperiodic crystals and the influence of this unique structure on their physical properties, this book represents a valuable resource to mathematicians, crystallographers, physicists, chemists, materials and surface scientists, and even architects and artists, interested in the fascinating nature of aperiodic crystals.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Siegbert Schmid, School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney, Sydney NSW 2006, Australia
Ray L. Withers, Research School of Chemistry, The Australian National University,Canberra, A.C.T, 0200, Australia
Ron Lifshitz, School of Physics & Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, ISRAEL
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Aperiodic Crystals
Editors: Siegbert Schmid, Ray L. Withers, Ron Lifshitz
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6431-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-6430-9Published: 03 May 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0065-6Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-6431-6Published: 19 April 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 286
Number of Illustrations: 49 b/w illustrations, 95 illustrations in colour
Topics: Structural Materials, Crystallography and Scattering Methods, Spectroscopy/Spectrometry